lace-up
anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
having a lace that is laced up as a closure: a lace-up blouse.
Origin of lace-up
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How to use lace-up in a sentence
More items came in time, as funding was available, like a slit-and-lace-up jacket and a line of boxer underwear.
Look Who’s Wearing The Pants: Haute Butch’s Gender-Blending Style | Nina Strochlic | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mankles themselves were sandwiched between patterned capri pants and lace-up loafers fit for a 90's school girl.
Men Wear Heels at J.W. Anderson's London Fashion Show | Erin Cunningham | January 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat meant liquid embroidered metallics, satin lace-up skirts – and even a tweed bikini.
But Logan and the Hartnett Fancy soon have bigger things to worry about than which pair of wingtips to lace up.
Must Reads: Kennedy, Sontag and Paris, ‘A Partial History of Lost Causes,’ ‘City of Bohane,’ ‘Flatscreen’ | Lauren Elkin, Mythili Rao, Drew Toal, Nicholas Mancusi | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTCherrie accepted the offer, rolled her lace up in a copy of the "Speckport Spouter," and started on her homeward journey.
A Changed Heart | May Agnes Fleming
The heavier lace-up boot came in during the fifties, and a very shaped type of fashion appeared in the sixties.
Dress design | Talbot HughesShe would have liked to have slipped out of her boots and wriggled her toes but they were too hard to lace up again.
Janet Hardy in Radio City | Ruthe S. WheelerHe opened the door a little, and pulled in his lace-up boots, which were polished in the highest style of art.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes | Israel ZangwillI could have cried, I was so vexed; but I determined I would not give the lace up without a struggle for it.
Cranford | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
British Dictionary definitions for lace up
(tr, adverb) to tighten or fasten (clothes or footwear) with laces
(of footwear) to be fastened with laces
a lace-up shoe or boot
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