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high button shoes

high button shoes is the plural of high button shoe.

Meaning of high button shoe

Noun

high button shoe (plural high button shoes)

  1. (historical) An ankle boot fastened by a row of buttons (in fashion from the late 19th to mid-20th century).
    • A bed slat leaning against the wall, and in one corner a woman’s high button shoe, curled up at the toe and broken over the instep.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 56

Questions about high button shoes

What is high button shoes the plural of?
High button shoes is the plural of high button shoe.

Words near high button shoes in the dictionary

  1. high board
  2. high boards
  3. High Bridge
  4. High Brooms
  5. high button shoe
  6. high button shoes
  7. high C
  8. high camp
  9. high card
  10. high cards
  11. high center

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