A blucher is naturally more adjustable than a balmoral shoe. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.shoebacca.com/resources/definitions/blucher.html]
Asked to explain the gag, he says it's an urban legend - that "blucher" means "glue" in German. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
Then again, I still find the running “blucher!” gag in Young Frankenstein hysterical. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
The woman's shoe and heel resemble a blucher-style oxford seen in a pre-takeoff photo of Earhart. From Wordnik.com. [Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart] Reference
Prussian field marshall G.L. von Blücher designed the blucher, a sensible. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
Shoes clearout: PF Flyers, Onitsuka, C. Gualtieri, Sebago blucher moc (size 7.5 - 9). From Wordnik.com. [superfuture :: supertalk] Reference
In a dextrorsal prosthetic real estate new jersey, telegraphically, an touch is piggyback a blucher retrospection of a heroin oodles. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Their dresses were red shirts, thick duck trousers, broad-brimmed hats, blucher boots, and leggings, with a strap round the waist to hold the axe and pouch containing matches, knife, and other small articles. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers] Reference
The little crowd outside the hut: selectors in washed and mended tweeds, some with paper collars, some wearing starched and ironed white coats, and in blucher boots, greased or blackened, or the young men wearing. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Bush] Reference
He had a cat-skin cap in his hand about as large as a frying-pan, and nearly of the same colour ” this he kept turning round and round first with one hand, then with both ” a pea-jacket with large pearl buttons, corduroy breeches, a kind of moleskin waistcoat, and blucher shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins]
They're tramping down in blucher boots. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Story Online - Chapter 2] Reference
This blucher shoe (the Linden) looks decent, too. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Economist] Reference
4) Sebago Stowe blucher moc, sz 7.5 Wide. From Wordnik.com. [superfuture :: supertalk] Reference
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