boots
a servant, as at a hotel, who blacks or polishes shoes and boots.
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How to use boots in a sentence
There’s flat boots as well that give combat boots vibes that are super comfortable, but still give you that make a statement feel.
Tinashe And ShoeDazzle Team Up For A Footwear Collection | Blake Newby | October 18, 2021 | Essence.comIf anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror | David Keyes | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSometimes there would be caricatures in which his body was swallowed up by his boots.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the next hour, she verbally humiliated him while he licked her boots and feet until they were completely cleaned.
Under the table, I could see that his combat boots were actually black sneakers, frayed at the seams.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace | Joshua Hersh | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Have you met the lumbersexual: all beards, flannel shirts, and work boots?
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’ | Tim Teeman | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousIsaac Bolum had fixed himself comfortably on two legs of his chair, with the projecting soles of his boots caught behind the rung.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydTip wore leaky boots all last winter, but when spring came he bought Mrs. Pulsifer a sewing machine.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydWhen the first sunbeam gleamed through the window of Bat's tiny kitchen, I arose, pulled on my boots and went to feed my horse.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairShe wore soiled Burberry, high-legged tan boots, and a peaked cap of distinctly military appearance.
Dope | Sax Rohmer
British Dictionary definitions for boots
/ (buːts) /
British (formerly) a shoeblack who cleans the guests' shoes in a hotel
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