cowboy boot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cowboy boot
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China's eastern coast.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
They are digitally inserted into dream tableaux — floating in a bed surrounded by giant rubber duckies, piloting a barrel with feet toward a parrot in a cowboy boot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
Of course, not every cowboy boot is as high-heeled as the ones DeSantis wears.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2023
Partners Logan Caldbeck and Colt Miller handmake Western-inspired leather ankle boots and mules in different leather options using the same techniques as small-shop cowboy boot markers.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Dorian picked up a cowboy boot from which a heel had been broken and dropped it into a wastebasket, wondering whether that impossible Ignatius J. Reilly was all right.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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