bluchers

CIDE DICTIONARY

bluchersn. 
     A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the tongue; -- named from the Prussian general BlÜcher.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bluchers, n.pl. hist. strong leather half-boots or high shoes.

Etymology
G. L. von Bl{uuml}cher, Prussian general d. 1819

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