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elastic sides en · NOUN
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(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:I was wearing a pair of elastic sides so, being a mug, slipped them off and put one on each of his horns. We all stood around for the photo.
2006, Brian Taylor, The Moonlight Stallion and Other Yarns from the Australian Outback, Australia: Hachette, published 2012:
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