Normally, Wikipedia explains everything, but I just Wikipedia-ed "knickerbocker," and am still kinda iffy on its actual definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOGOODFORME.COM] Reference

Sadly, one thing I did learn from "knickerbocker" 's Wikipedia entry is that "knickerbocker" is the real-live last name of certain Dutch people.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOGOODFORME.COM] Reference

It still retained some of the knickerbocker customs of the olden time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

'That is all right,' he answered, thrusting his hand in his knickerbocker pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

He was born into one of the most wealthy New York, old knickerbocker, native-stock families.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt] Reference

Magazines teemed with advertisements for bicycles, bicycle cloth, cycling corsets, skirts, and knickerbocker suits.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

"Where else?" demanded Floss, critically, with a fond look at the shilling which he had drawn out of his knickerbocker pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference

Fathers of even advanced years wore knickerbocker suits on all occasions and spent most of their time playing a game called golf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917] Reference

If you'd normally pick another glass of red or a knickerbocker glory over a dessert wine, that's probably because you haven't tried these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine: Life is sweet] Reference

He was dressed in a well-fitting knickerbocker suit, and his polished boots, his well combed hair, denoted that he was an object of especial care at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Followed up by a knickerbocker glory at the 50s-style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I think the knickerbocker bank collapsed or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cracked: All Posts] Reference

I tell you the women will go wild over this knickerbocker idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference

I almost wish now that my last suit had been a knickerbocker one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Plays] Reference

"After your pajama and knickerbocker stunt I'm braced for anything.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference

So he put his nightgown over his knickerbocker suit, and knelt on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verses for Children and Songs for Music] Reference

Then Robert smacked his knickerbocker loudly with his palm, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenix and the Carpet] Reference

He wore a tweed knickerbocker suit, and a knapsack lay upon the grass by his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Avenger] Reference

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail knickerbocker: That figure of a million Iraqis.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROK Drop] Reference

The Prince of Graustark had been a prime favourite of the great man since his knickerbocker days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of Graustark] Reference

Take the song "knickerbocker" as an example, with the repeated phrase "vanilla, strawberry, knickerbocker glory.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Faronheit] Reference

Laura Barton takes the train to Skegness where the big wheel, knickerbocker glories and Jolly Fisherman rock await.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

In the end Meryl was persuaded to have a knickerbocker garb also, though she insisted that she would never wear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rhodesian] Reference

This is a pure knickerbocker glory of gunfire, explosions, human confetti, gut wrenching screams and all out chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions] Reference

Diana had a smart khaki knickerbocker suit made, and a wonderful broad-brimmed hat with a long feather to go with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rhodesian] Reference

He was still in his picturesque knickerbocker dress, and his clear-cut features, with the clustering curls of hair, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

Nice, smooth-haired, bright-eyed youngster, with his ears all scoured out pink and his knickerbocker suit brushed neat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy, Private Sec.] Reference

The long knickerbocker stockings which she showed us were remarkably good, some in "cross-gartered" patterns, handsomer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

Emma, I know I fought the knickerbocker when you originated it, and I know that it turned out to be a magnificent success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference

At times he wore his fishing-suit, at other times he had on a knickerbocker suit of shepherd's plaid with a domino pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonsense Novels] Reference

But somehow they'd doped out a one-piece union suit cut high in the neck with sort of a knickerbocker effect to the lower end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy and Vee] Reference

York born, as had been his knickerbocker ancestors before him clear back to the time when New York was not New York but New Amsterdam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

The knickerbocker and the short skirt are aesthetic, that is eye-pleasing, because they mark a natural division of the body at the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference

"But the laugh will be, I bet you, on me -- like it was when you designed that knickerbocker before the trade knew such a thing could be.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference

However, a man from Delft, who followed the business of a knickerbocker, or baker of knickers, or clay marles, begged the body of the Oni.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks] Reference