Knee-breeches

This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.

Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.

All over British Africa, speakers in their traditional wigs and knee-breeches presided over the rectangular debating chambers of the Westminster model, in which ‘government’ and ‘opposition’ sat facing each other.

Orthodox Jews, in knee-breeches, with round hats and ringlets down their cheeks, were indulging in strange jerking movements, like puppets, while reading books […]