1918, Caradoc Evans, "The Talent Thou Gavest" in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni and Liveright, p. 68, https://archive.org/details/cu31924013610724This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.
1967, Roland Oliver and Anthony Atmore, Africa Since 1800, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Chapter 16, p. 225All 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.
1996, Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven, translated by Paul Vincent, Penguin, Part Four, Chapter 63,Orthodox Jews, in knee-breeches, with round hats and ringlets down their cheeks, were indulging in strange jerking movements, like puppets, while reading books ...
