Looking for sentences and phrases with the word knee-breeches? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
This is a world of lace, lapdogs, knee-breeches trimmed with silk ribbons, rich textures, glowing colour and shadows pregnant with meaning.
He sat on his bed, still wearing his Garter, Order of Merit and knee-breeches.
Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches.
Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.
This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.
There were men dressed in colonial garb complete with knee-breeches and powdered wigs.
Examples from Classical Literature
The canopy is held up by prelates, and the chairmen are in knee-breeches and red velvet.
His waistcoat was red, and he wore knee-breeches, but his aspect was flustered.
He wore dark-blue knee-breeches, with stockings of undyed wool, red shirt-sleeves, and wideawake hat of grey felt.
He wore knee-breeches and a pith helmet, and he was more bronzed than when she had bidden him farewell.
Picture him then in a loose red flannel tunic, corduroy knee-breeches, serge leggings, white pith helmet with a puggaree round it.
His vest was a shaggy satin of a delicate cream color, and his knee-breeches of rose velvet trimmed like the coat.
These wore loose knee-breeches, long yarn stockings, and hobnailed high-laced walking-shoes.
The man's shoulders were big and broad, but his legs were neat and active in knee-breeches and knitted stockings.
Here, we found a gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee-breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the perusal of the newspaper.
Uncle Henry had nine suits of clothes, cut in the popular Munchkin fashion, with knee-breeches, silk stockings, and low shoes with jeweled buckles.
