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blucher
1[bloo-ker, -cher]
noun
a strong, leather half boot.
a shoe having the vamp and tongue made of one piece and overlapped by the quarters, which lace across the instep.
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2[bloo-ker, -cher, bly-
noun
Gebhart Leberecht von 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal.
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1/ ˈçə /
noun
Gebhard Leberecht von (ˈɡɛphart ˈleːbərɛçt fɔn). 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal, who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (1815)
blucher
2/ -tʃə, ˈbluːkə /
noun
obsoletea high shoe with laces over the tongue
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blucher1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blucher1
Example Sentences
Most tantalizing of all: fragments of a shoe--a heel, partial sole and brass shoelace eyelet--apparently from a woman's blucher oxford, size 9.
She was smoking a pipe, and looking at her blucher boots.
Disencumbering himself of his ordinary garments, Lance soon found himself attired in a striped suit of coarse cloth, fitted also with rough blucher boots and a woollen cap.
It is a fact that they used to boil their blucher boots for twenty-four hours and eat them with weeds!
The boots I wore were heavy hand-sewn bluchers, two sizes too large for me.
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