| A repository of the empire, the town bears a suitably idiotic, unwieldy name, and even in 1950s Armidale it was possible to hear such terms as bluchers, port and goolies. |
| Since balmorals are more formal than bluchers and broguing makes shoes less formal, where does this leave those shoes that are both brogued and balmorals? |
| Perhaps some person or persons here may wonder why we should not send out side-springs and bluchers, as well as top-boots. |
| We have not noticed so many highlows as bluchers upon the understandings of the promenaders of Broad-street. |
| Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside. |
| In a pinch, i.e., when travelling I might wear a pair of my dressier bluchers with a suit, but I'd feel a little guilty about the slightly subpar pairing. |
