Knickerbocker
['nɪkəbɒkə] or ['nɪkɚ,bɑkɚ]
Examples
- Just before Christmas in 1880--December 17--as an item for the silk stocking of Father Knickerbocker--the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was organized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was dressed like a gentleman, in Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, with a cloth cap upon his head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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