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Black shoelace. Shoelaces, also called shoestrings (US English) or bootlaces (UK English), are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots, and other footwear. They typically consist of a pair of strings or cords, one for each shoe, finished off at both ends with stiff sections, known as aglets. Each shoelace typically passes through a series ...
Falling back on a word he had originally picked up from his Glasgow-native college roommate, he called it a "doobrie"—a British placeholder name, akin to "watchamacallit" or "thingy." (British media personality Kenny Everett had often used the word "doobrie" in this manner during the 1980s.) Although Clegg suspected his audience had mistaken ...
Section – OR (Other Ranks – a 'section' of the British Armed Forces) See – LO; Senior Service – RN (Royal Navy) Sergeant Major - SM; Setter – I, ME, ONE (meaning the setter of the crossword) Setter's – MY (meaning the setter of the crossword) Sex appeal – IT (after Clara Bow – the It girl) or SA; Shilling – S; Ship – SS ...
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A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The English word galosh, golosh, [1] [2] [3] etc. comes from French galoche from Medieval Latin galopia, a variant of Late Latin calopes and calopedes, a partial calque of Greek καλοπόδιον (kalopódion) from κᾶλον (kâlon) ' wood ' and πούς (poús), ' foot '. [4]
Ghillies are soft shoes, almost always made of a supple leather that forms to the foot. They use laces which criss-cross the top of the foot and are tied together similar to a sneaker.
The meaning of "Oxford" and "balmoral" may vary geographically. In the United States and Scotland, "Balmoral" is often synonymous with "Oxford". [4] In the United States, "Oxford" is sometimes used for any more formal lace-up shoe, including the Blucher and Derby.