boot-stand

noun

an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing

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Meanings

nounboot-stand (plural boot-stands)

plural boot-stands

  1. an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing

    A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.

    1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia
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“boot-stand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot-stand. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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