shoe-tie en · NOUN
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shoe-ties | Number=Plur | lexicographic |