blucher

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blucher¹

  • /ˈbluːkə/

Rhymes with -uːkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

noun bluchers

  1. historical A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
  2. A sturdy laced leather half-boot. He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'

Blucher²

  • /ˈbluːkə/

Where it comes from

Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.

proper noun

  1. In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble the fixed stake (an amount agreed upon before the game begins).
  2. A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343.
  3. A community within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.

noun Bluchers

  1. alternative Alternative form of blucher

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noun sturdy laced leather half-boot

Españolblucher
Françaisderby
DeutschBlücher

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@misc{blucher_2026,
  title = {blucher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blucher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}