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        1. What is a knickerbocker
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        4. The narrator of Washington Irving's A History of New York, an odd, inquisitive gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker, who al legedly disappeared in I

          5. Diedrich Knickerbocker

          American literary character

          Diedrich Knickerbocker is an American literary character who originated from Washington Irving's first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809).

          He is a Dutch-American historian who is dressed in a specific type of baggy-kneed trousers referred to as knickerbockers, later shortened to knickers. The word knickerbocker is also used to refer to people who live in Manhattan,[1] and was adopted in a shortened form as the Knicks by the city's NBA professional basketball team.

          History

          In 1809, Washington Irving wrote his first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker. It was a satire of the politics of the day and history books.

          To promote the book he started a hoax by contacting various newspapers in New York City that "well-known Dutch histori