Bluchers (noun) (historic)
bloo-kuhs
Strong leather half-boots or high shoes.
Mid 19th century: named after G. L. von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian general.
Example sentences
“I don’t know where he’d been, his bluchers were caked in mud.”

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