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bluchers
CIDE DICTIONARY
bluchers, n.
A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the tongue; -- named from the Prussian general BlÜcher . Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bluchers, n.pl. hist. strong leather half-boots or high shoes.
Etymology
G. L. von Bl{uuml}cher, Prussian general d. 1819
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