knickerbocker

noun

knick·er·bock·er ˈni-kər-ˌbä-kər

ˈni-kə-

knickerbockers ˈni-kər-ˌbä-kərz

ˈni-kə-

plural : knickers

capitalized : a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York

broadly : a native or resident of the city or state of New York

—used as a nickname

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Also known as the panic of 1907, the knickerbocker crisis is now largely forgotten, but the economic nightmare was burned into the memories of those who lived around the turn of the 20th century. —

Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2024 Wearing knickerbockers tucked into her knee-high socks, Kuhn raised an arm to signal her presence, stepped into the ice chute and waited for her cue. —

Noele Illien, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020 Suits included boyish shorts or knickerbockers more often than a trouser. —

Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020 They were originally modeled after classic knickerbockers: broad and billowy from the waist to the calf, and then skin tight to the ankle. —

Pete Forester, Esquire, 7 Sep. 2017 This image, of a fair-haired child dressed as a page boy, in cape and knickerbockers, adorns the cover of the American edition of Sebald’s novel. —

James Wood, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017 There was that about him which spoke of knickerbockers and romping childhood laid aside but yesterday. —

Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017