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What are Knickerbockers?

What are Knickerbockers? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic or historical) plural of Knickerbocker; New Yorkers, particularly descendants of its original Dutch settlers
  2. (basketball, uncommon) The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association
  3. (baseball, historical) A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York
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Pupils came to school in historic costume, including Eton collars for the boys and three-quarter length knickerbockers and pinafores for the girls.
He wore a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, and his tanned boots were polished till they shone like glass.
She showed well finished knickerbockers in black, a pink singlet with covered buttons and suspender clips, and a white singlet with a column of buttons down the left.
Before her was a tea wagon and she was at present pouring a cup for a slightly stiff person in knickerbockers.
What she does say is that the skirt and knickerbockers were made of the same stuff.
The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.

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