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saddle oxford en · NOUN
Meanings
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Synonym of saddle shoe.
On one foot she had a house shoe and on the other a saddle oxford.
2002, Hal Bynum, The Promise, Beauregard Records and Books, →ISBN, page 40:[…]because of her childish gait, or because I had memorized her as always wearing heelless shoes, her saddle oxfords looked somehow too large and too high-heeled for her.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 27, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 113:The saddle oxford, whether brown and white, black and white, or navy and white, whether by Spaulding or another manufacturer, caught on as something both new and comfortable.
1972 winter, “Panorama of a Century—1934-1943”, in The Anchora of Delta Gamma, volume LXXXIX, number 2:
Forms
Deriveds
saddle-oxforded
Synonyms
saddle shoe