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Definition of Blucher
1. Noun. Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819).
Generic synonyms: Full General, General
2. Noun. A high shoe with laces over the tongue.
Definition of Blucher
1. n. A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher.
Definition of Blucher
1. Noun. (historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach. ¹
2. Noun. A sturdy laced leather half-boot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blucher
1. a half boot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blucher
Literary usage of Blucher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France by Alphonse de Lamartine (1872)
"The Allies demand a suspension of arms—Conferences of Lusigny—The allied troops
take Soissons—blucher unites all his corps ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1906)
"Instead of effecting his junction with blucher and then attacking Napoleon with a
... He informed blucher that for the present he dared not risk a battle, ..."
3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1832)
"If blucher left Oudinot, Macdonald, and Gerard in I should find ... thur Austrian
to con- - blucher must have hazarded a battle on the tinue his retreat, ..."
4. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by [Louis Antoine Fauvelet] de Bourrienne (1846)
"After this capitulation General blucher took the command of the remains of the
corps, ... These corps, in addition to those which blucher had at ..."
5. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by Walter Scott (1829)
"WHEN Buonaparte moved with his centre and right wing against blucher, he certainly
conceived that he left to Ney a more easy task than his own ; and that ..."
6. Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1836)
"Army of Wellington covers Brussels—that of blucher on the Sambre and Meuse.—Napoleon
reviews his Grand Army on I4l/i June.—Advances upon Charleroi—His plan ..."
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