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shoe-ties

shoe-ties is the plural of shoe-tie.

Meaning of shoe-tie

Noun

shoe-tie (plural shoe-ties)

  1. (archaic) A shoelace.
    • […] as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr Casaubon's feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope.1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.5

Questions about shoe-ties

What is shoe-ties the plural of?
Shoe-ties is the plural of shoe-tie.

Words near shoe-ties in the dictionary

  1. shoe-leather
  2. shoe-leather journalism
  3. shoe-leather reporting
  4. shoe-leathers
  5. shoe-tie
  6. shoe-ties
  7. shoebag
  8. shoebags
  9. shoebeam
  10. shoebeams
  11. shoebill

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