blucher

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, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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.'

Translations

sturdy laced leather half-boot

Catalan: blútxer French: derby (fr) German: Blücher Spanish: blucher Swedish: Blücherskor