Open-kneed

Quick meaning: Open-kneed is an adjective meaning (historical, of garments) Having wide legs and reaching below the knees but higher than the ankles (not tied or closed at the knees).

Meaning

(historical, of garments) Having wide legs and reaching below the knees but higher than the ankles (not tied or closed at the knees).

Example Sentences

He had on no Cloaths, but a Seaman’s Wastcoat, a Pair of open-knee’d Linnen Drawers, and a blew Linnen Shirt; but nothing to direct me so much as to guess what Nation he was of […]

1703, Politica (pseudonym), The Levellers: A Dialogue between Two Young Ladies, concerning Matrimony, London: J. How, in The Harleian Miscellany, London: Robert Dutton, 1811, Volume 12, p. 213, The coat-sleeves were gloriously cut and slashed, small buttons on the coat, a little bigger than pease; the pockets about a handful below the knees, the breeches were open-kneed, a great deal wider than a Flanderkin’s trousers, hung all around with abundance of little ribbons.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include opened-toe, open-neck, high-necked, flared, closed-toe, longline.

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