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  • Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer. (UK, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink. Spectator I have just left the right worshipful...
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  • shoeing-horn (plural shoeing-horns) (dated) A shoehorn. (obsolete) Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels...
    3 KB (398 words) - 05:34, 4 February 2024
  • soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. Synonyms: babouche, pantofle Hyponym: chinela Coordinate terms: flip-flop, sandal Such a shoe intended...
    12 KB (709 words) - 05:20, 15 June 2024
  • without the Addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than Lace to it. The spelling has been modernized. (cord): (for a shoe): shoelace (for a garment):...
    10 KB (1,103 words) - 17:01, 30 June 2024
  • July 21, 2024”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […]...
    6 KB (416 words) - 11:07, 2 June 2024
  • all lacy-like, with high heels; I had steppers, low heels like men's spectator shoes, and pointy toes. I got the foot for it and I got the height; I would...
    5 KB (733 words) - 23:36, 27 March 2024
  • “TUESDAY, February 19, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 305; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New...
    10 KB (537 words) - 20:25, 30 June 2024
  • Hyphenation: cob‧bler From Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to...
    23 KB (2,082 words) - 05:42, 12 July 2024
  • “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 42; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York...
    8 KB (1,114 words) - 14:27, 11 June 2024
  • so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe. 2014, Faye McKnight, Goodnight, Bob, page 9: We would have been laughed...
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  • ” 2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator‎[2], archived from the original on 18 April 2023: The audiotape of Alan...
    2 KB (195 words) - 02:58, 4 February 2024
  • hero of the piece must be advanced foremost to the view of the reader or spectator; he must outshine the rest of all the characters; he must appear the prince...
    23 KB (1,575 words) - 19:34, 12 July 2024
  • “THURSDAY, August 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 133; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New...
    34 KB (2,813 words) - 21:19, 1 July 2024
  • “FRIDAY, March 2, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 2; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York...
    49 KB (5,429 words) - 15:55, 8 June 2024
  • swallow it. 1905, Fielding H. Yost, chapter 6, in Football for Player and Spectator: A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it...
    28 KB (2,498 words) - 18:37, 15 July 2024
  • “WEDNESDAY, September 15, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 594; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New...
    34 KB (4,700 words) - 02:33, 7 July 2024
  • “TUESDAY, March 4, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 317; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New...
    31 KB (4,264 words) - 20:23, 16 June 2024
  • “SATURDAY, February 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 291; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New...
    64 KB (5,650 words) - 03:46, 30 June 2024
  • “SATURDAY, September 6, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 477; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New...
    38 KB (3,745 words) - 03:13, 18 July 2024
  • sliced through the air, pierced the tall grass, and struck the Dwarf's shoes one hundred yards out . . . but the Dwarf was not in them! 2015, Melody...
    11 KB (1,218 words) - 18:14, 2 June 2024
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