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  • Be aware though, Roberto, that trying to bring a sense of proportion to a nation that thinks it fitting in the worst financial crisis since the last worst financial crisis to parade through the City in gold coaches and knee-breeches – and televise it, for goodness sake – might be a vain quest.

    Lord Mayor's Show is a bit of an own goal for BBC 2011

  • For cycling, shooting and golf, knickerbockers and plus-fours, a type of loose knee-breeches fastened at the knee with a band were favored, and for rowing, knit sweaters in team or school colors (e.g. light blue for Cambridge, navy for Oxford).

    Dressing the Edwardian Man | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • His vest was a shaggy satin of a delicate cream color, and his knee-breeches of rose velvet trimmed like the coat.

    Love Letters 2010

  • The men's constricting knee-breeches, however, don't readily enhance the more leggy, linear aspects of the choreography.

    A Biography in Need of an Editor 2009

  • Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes that were to be served.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Dress all up in 18th-century costumes wif tite boddices and floofy skerts and teh mens can wares teh shiny knee-breeches and everyboddy can wares big floofy powdered wigs achoo! too many powders and has too much face makeups and byooty marks to hide our smallpox scars and carry frilly hankies?

    Yeah, we hooked up! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The old man wore shoes with cut-steel buckles, silk stockings with stripes round the leg, alternately blue and white, corded silk knee-breeches with oval buckles cut to match those on his shoes.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • But the notoriety of his knee-breeches and silken hose, and above all the continual attacks in the society papers, came to his aid and his book appeared in the early summer of 1881 with all the importance that imposing form, good paper, broad margins, and high price (10/6) could give it.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • Still, the lecturer was a fine figure of a man: his knee-breeches and silk stockings set all the women talking, and he spoke with suave authority.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

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