knee breeches

Questions about knee breeches

What does knee breeches mean?

knee breeches means "(used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee".

What is another word for knee breeches?

Close synonyms include breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knee breeches a common word?

knee breeches is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.