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boot-stand

boot-stand noun: an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing.

Noun

boot-stand (plural boot-stands)

  1. an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing
    • A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia

Forms of boot-stand

pluralboot-stands

Questions about boot-stand

What does boot-stand mean?
Boot-stand means an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing.
What part of speech is boot-stand?
Boot-stand is a noun.
What is the plural of boot-stand?
The plural of boot-stand is boot-stands.

Words near boot-stand in the dictionary

  1. boot-jack
  2. boot-licker
  3. boot-lickier
  4. boot-lickiest
  5. boot-licky
  6. boot-stand
  7. boot-studder
  8. boot-studders
  9. boot-topping
  10. boot-toppings
  11. boot-tree

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