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elastic sides

elastic sides noun: slip-on boots similar to riding boots with a piece of elastic set into the ankles.

Noun

elastic sides pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, plural, plural-only) Slip-on boots similar to riding boots with a piece of elastic set into the ankles.
    • But Mary preferred to sit quietly on the beach. "The dressing and undressing is such a trouble," said she. As it was, one of her elastic-sides was full of sand.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, Part IV, Chapter I, p. 247
    • Brilliant Lace [was] decked out for the solemnization in bright blue shirt and spotless yellow corduroys and bright tan elastic-sides and velour wideawake.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 177

Forms of elastic sides

alternative formelastic-sides

Questions about elastic sides

What does elastic sides mean?
Elastic sides means slip-on boots similar to riding boots with a piece of elastic set into the ankles.
What part of speech is elastic sides?
Elastic sides is a noun.

Words near elastic sides in the dictionary

  1. elastic fiber
  2. elastic fibers
  3. elastic limit
  4. elastic limits
  5. elastic recovery
  6. elastic sides
  7. elastic-sided
  8. elastic-sides
  9. elastica
  10. elastical
  11. elastically

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