"knee-breeches" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1918, Caradoc Evans, “The Talent Thou Gavest”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 68",
          "text": "This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.",
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          "ref": "1967, Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore, chapter 16, in Africa Since 1800, Cambridge University Press, published 2005, page 225",
          "text": "All over British Africa, speakers in their traditional wigs and knee-breeches presided over the rectangular debating chambers of the Westminster model, in which ‘government’ and ‘opposition’ sat facing each other.",
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          "ref": "1996, Harry Mulisch with translated by Paul Vincent, chapter 63, in The Discovery of Heaven, Penguin, section 4",
          "text": "Orthodox Jews, in knee-breeches, with round hats and ringlets down their cheeks, were indulging in strange jerking movements, like puppets, while reading books […]",
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        "Breeches reaching down to or just below the knee."
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      "rhymes": "-ɪtʃɪz"
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  "word": "knee-breeches"
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      "word": "knee breeches"
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