kneeband

English

Alternative forms

• knee-band

Etymology

knee +‎ band

Noun

kneeband (plural kneebands)

1. The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.
   • 1891, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations:

     Can the calmest face, can the best-plaited lawn-sleeves, can the highest-drawn pink stockings, can the comeliest thigh-cases, the most nicely puckered at the kneeband, or can the most virginal apron, do away with or cover this ?

   • 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:

     Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.

   • 2005, Carolyn L. White, American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820, →ISBN, page 43:

     The kneeband started to be buckled around 1735; previous to this the kneeband was buttoned.