blucher

See also: Blucher

English

Etymology

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbluːkə/

Noun

blucher (plural bluchers)

  1. (historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
  2. A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
    • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:
      He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'

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