high button shoe
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Noun
[edit]high button shoe (plural high button shoes)
- (historical) An ankle boot fastened by a row of buttons (in fashion from the late 19th to mid-20th century).
- 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath[1], New York: Viking, published 1958, page 56:
- A bed slat leaning against the wall, and in one corner a woman’s high button shoe, curled up at the toe and broken over the instep.
- 1971, Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain’s Horseman[2], New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 19, p. 429:
- She protested she could not read for a part which obliged her to appear in no more than a bra, a corset, and high-button shoes.