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blucher

1

[bloo-ker, -cher]

noun

  1. a strong, leather half boot.

  2. a shoe having the vamp and tongue made of one piece and overlapped by the quarters, which lace across the instep.



ü

2

[bloo-ker, -cher, bly-khuhr]

noun

  1. Gebhart Leberecht von 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal.

ü

1

/ ˈçə /

noun

  1. Gebhard Leberecht von (ˈɡɛphart ˈleːbərɛçt fɔn). 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal, who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (1815)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

blucher

2

/ -tʃə, ˈbluːkə /

noun

  1. obsoletea high shoe with laces over the tongue

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blucher1

First recorded in 1825–35; named after G. L. von ü ( def. )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blucher1

C19: named after Field Marshal ü
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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.

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She was smoking a pipe, and looking at her blucher boots.

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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.

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It is a fact that they used to boil their blucher boots for twenty-four hours and eat them with weeds!

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The boots I wore were heavy hand-sewn bluchers, two sizes too large for me.

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