blucher

See also: Blucher

English

Etymology

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluːkə/
• Rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)

Noun

blucher (plural bluchers)

1. (historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
2. A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:

     He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'

Translations

sturdy laced leather half-boot

• Catalan: blútxer
• French: derby (fr)
• German: Blücher
• Spanish: blucher
• Swedish: Blücherskor