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Shoes

noun

A particular situation. Synonym: place.

Shoe

noun

(pl. shoes, formerly shoon, now provincial)

Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.

(card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time.

U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof. Synonym: horseshoe.

A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation. Synonyms: brake shoe, skid.

verb

(past & past part. shod; pres. part. shoeing)

Furnish with shoes.

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... find out what it could do. One of the men with Swope was a deputy sheriff, Creede could tell that by his star; but the other man might be almost anything—a little fat man with a pointed beard and congress shoes; a lawyer, perhaps, or maybe some ...

— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

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— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... now wore gray silk stockings and small prunella shoes; her gown was the same as before, but she was wrapped in a Venetian "mantua,"—a sort of cloak which was just then returning into fashion. On her head was a drawn bonnet of green silk, lined with white ...

— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac

... on," he said to himself, thinking how he should describe him to Bud. "An' gole buckles on his shoes, an' a sword on, an' a long white feathah in his hat. Cricky! An' it was his hawse I done held! Maybe it will be somethin' mighty fine what he's goin' to bring me, ...

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