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kneeband

noun

Etymology

From knee + band.

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bandiz✻
  3. derived from *bend✻
  4. derived from banda
  5. derived from bande
  6. derived from band
  7. compounded as kneeband — “knee + band”

Definitions

  1. The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.

    • Can the calmest face, can the best-plaited lawn-sleeves, can the highest-drawn pink stockings, can the comeliest thigh-cases, the most nicely puckered at the kneeband, or can the most virginal apron, do away with or cover this ?
    • Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.
    • The kneeband started to be buckled around 1735; previous to this the kneeband was buttoned.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA