knee breeches

noun
1.
breeches (def 1).
Origin
1825-35
Examples from the web for knee breeches
  • The butler never wears the livery of a footman and on no account knee breeches or powder.
  • Little boys snits frequently consist of three pieces- the jacket, the waistcoat and the short trousers or knee breeches.
  • Besides this, they wear leather aprons, knee breeches.