bockered

I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure — his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hair, his little round body, his arms and his knicker-bockered legs tucked up tightly — against the weird spaciousness of the lunar scene.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

This poor little creature having dodged two boulders by a hairbreadth, got out by the westward corner and fled athwart the hill, with flapping rucksack and twinkling knicker-bockered legs, leaving a trail of Cretaceous echinoderms behind him; while young Caddies, satisfied with the destruction he had achieved, came striding out to fulfil his purpose in the world.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

Then Robert made a back, and Cyril hoisted himself up and got his knicker-bockered knee on the concrete window-sill.

The Phoenix and the Carpet 1891