kneeband
English
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[edit]kneeband (plural kneebands)
- The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.
- 1891, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations:
- 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 ?
- 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:
- 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.
- 2005, Carolyn L. White, American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820, →ISBN, page 43:
- The kneeband started to be buckled around 1735; previous to this the kneeband was buttoned.