bluchers

noun

1. a strong, leather half boot.
2. a shoe having the vamp and tongue made of one piece and overlapped by the quarters, which lace across the instep.

noun

1. obsolete a high shoe with laces over the tongue

noun

1. Gebhard Leberecht von (ˈɡɛphart ˈleːbərɛçt fɔn). 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal, who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (1815)