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Knee breeches

British pronunciation/nˈiː bɹˈiːtʃɪz/
American pronunciation/nˈiː bɹˈiːtʃᵻz/
Knee breeches
[NOUN]
1

(used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee

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1And so this idea of his look at first was something which mixed male and female signifiers as well as historicizing and aristocratic things like showing off the legs in knee breeches and wearing velvet, which was associated as a woman's material.
2You know, it's sort of like how everyone in Canada wears powdered wigs and knee breeches to look like 18th century England.
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