desert boots
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Entangled in courtship of long-forgotten girls everyone is more British, dressier, pre-Twiggy in woollens and desert boots, but with a touch of traktor though in bungalow suburbs.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
By the second week, I too was wearing a long scarf, baggy khaki drills, the soft desert boots that were called brothel-creepers, and carrying an armful of books by Ezra Pound.
From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2020
She has walked about 1,800 miles in those brown desert boots.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2019
Adidas Clarks desert boots, which became a thing because they’re the easiest way to surgically upgrade your style: British Army wear.
From The Verge • May 22, 2018
Ignatius instead fell backward, and the bus, exhaling diesel exhaust, rumbled past an inch or two from his desert boots.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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