knickerbocker
knickerbocker
noun
knickerbockered
adjective
语源
noun
- (knickerbockers)loose-fitting breeches gathered at the knee or calf
（小腿或膝盖处扎紧的）灯笼裤 - (Knickerbocker)a New Yorker
纽约人
■a descendant of the original Dutch settlers in New York
纽约早期荷兰移民后代
knickerbockered
adjective
语源
- mid 19th cent. (originally in sense 2): named after Diedrich Knickerbocker, pretended author of W. Irving's History of New York (1809). Sense 1 is said to have arisen from the resemblance of knickerbockers to the knee breeches worn by Dutch men in Cruikshank's illustrations in Irving's book
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