knee-band

English

Noun

knee-band (plural knee-bands)

1. Alternative form of kneeband
   • 2013, Norah Waugh, The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900, →ISBN, page xliv:

     When you have got so far, cut your seat at the joining of the waistband, less by two inches double; and in making, let your knee-band be cut one inch longer than your measure, and back it on lining, and set it in with the knee-band to the breeches;