Blutchers
Encyclopedia
Blutchers are leather half-boots, named after Field Marshal von Blütcher.
Cultural references
- In a 1912 short story by Katherine MansfieldKatherine MansfieldKathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...
, entitled The Woman At The StoreThe Woman at the StoreThe Woman At The Store is a 1912 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Rhythm in Spring 1912 under the penname of Lili Heron.-Plot summary:...
, a Maori woman, "wore on her feet a pair of dirty blutchers".