Beispiele aus Textkorpus für knee breeches
1. Cyclists, smart in their knee breeches, cap, collar and tie, were dispatched to patrol the roads wearing red rosettes and carrying flags.
2. Donald Watson, who walks Boston‘s streets in a gold vest, knee breeches, and a tri–corner hat, says existing social studies curriculums need to be reinforced by repetition and expansion.
3. In fact, researchers used the inventories of several of the slave–owning planters whose farms ringed the colonial capital city to reveal this layer of history, a grittily textured contrast to traditional images of all–white Commonwealth founders in knee breeches bravely plunging the infant nation into the Revolutionary War with fiery debate.
4. Not only did the protest not help the hunting lobby win the day in parliament, it also raised questions about whether parliaments mediaeval security system – run since the fifteenth century by a sergeant–at–arms in knee breeches, who has to give permission for the police to enter the debating chamber – was really appropriate in the age of the suicide bomber.
5. Clare Dyer, legal editor Wednesday July 1', 2006 The Guardian Judges may dress up in 18th–century wigs and wear knee breeches and tights on ceremonial occasions, but they are fully in touch with ordinary people‘s lives, the lord chief justice said last night.