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Blucher

[ UK /blˈʌt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819)

How To Use Blucher In A Sentence

  • Bluchers are more appropriate than balmorals with jeans and business-casual, but balmorals are more appropriate with suits.
  • Since balmorals are more formal than bluchers and broguing makes shoes less formal, where does this leave those shoes that are both brogued and balmorals?
  • When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.” Mark Twain
  • Blücher was compelled to give ground, and his repulse was the signal for a general Allied retreat. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
  • Foundry's version of Blucher (left) and Hohenlohe (center) compared to an Elite Miniatures general (right). Archive 2009-05-01
  • Bals generally should have a small gap at the top of the lacing, while bluchers often have a larger one through the length of the lacing.
  • I believe balmorals should have a gap of ¼ " and bluchers about ¾ "; otherwise it looks so school-boyish.
  • This drew a croud to the beach and we walkd a long way under Shakespear's Cliff, but on the arrival of a boat instead of Old Blucher, [3] she landed Count Meternich the Austrian Ambasador, whom the croud took on their shoulders and caried against his will to the Ship Letter 290
  • Captain Davis let us have five pairs of light bluchers out of the ship's stores, and we reckoned that these with extra soles and a few hobnails would hold out till August or September, when a sealing vessel was expected. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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