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Knickerbockers are loose trousers that balloon out and then grip just below the knee. People wore them for sport — golf, cycling, walking — especially in the past. The name comes from Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's pictures for Washington Irving's 1809 book A History of New York. They look old-fashioned now, though you still see them at vintage golf or cycling events. Informal-to-neutral; a bit historical. Though actually, in Britain, later came to mean women's underwear — a of this word, and a very different thing to put on.
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組成From Knickerbocker + -s, after those short breeches in the 1809 New York book illustrations.
同家族的字
- knickersin British English, underwear; shortened from knickerbockers
- Knickerbockerthe book name whose short breeches gave the trousers their name
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Knickerbockersnoun
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ball-gamesbasketballgamesThe formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association
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historicalball-gamesbaseballgamesA short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York
knickerbockersnoun/ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/
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Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
- Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect.
- […] and some gems that represent the tasseled garment that the leader wears show it in a distinctly religious connection. On a gem from Zakro it [the sistrum] is being being carried by a man who does not wear the loin-cloth, but a baggy kind of knickerbockers like the Moslem trousers of to-day.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。