saddle oxford

plural saddle oxfords · alternative saddle Oxford

1. Synonym of saddle shoe.

   On one foot she had a house shoe and on the other a saddle oxford.

   2002, Hal Bynum, The Promise, Beauregard Records and Books, →ISBN, page 40

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   […]because of her childish gait, or because I had memorized her as always wearing heelless shoes, her saddle oxfords looked somehow too large and too high-heeled for her.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 27, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 113

   The saddle oxford, whether brown and white, black and white, or navy and white, whether by Spaulding or another manufacturer, caught on as something both new and comfortable.

   1972 winter, “Panorama of a Century—1934-1943”, in The Anchora of Delta Gamma, volume LXXXIX, number 2

   Synonyms: saddle shoe

plural saddle Oxfords

1. Alternative letter-case form of saddle oxford.

   Marie, still a teenager, giggled and jumped up and down in her black and white saddle Oxfords, her favorite poodle skirt dancing along.

   2016 October, Clayton H. Ramsey, “The Lionhearted”, in The Treasure Trove: A Collection of Prose and Poetry, CreateSpace, →ISBN, “Warriors” section, page 131

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   I plodded behind her in the wool coat my mother insisted I would grow into, my brown plaid dress hanging below my knees, white ankle socks disappearing into the heels of my saddle Oxfords, my skinny legs just beginning to sprout black hairs.

   2013, Pamela Galbreath, “Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me”, in Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, Ana Kothe, editors, Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism, Albany, N.Y.: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 106

   When I entered my awkward teen years, I remember Owen telling me, “Take off the saddle Oxfords and the bobby socks and put on some high heels.”

   2016 September 13, Ella Brennan, Ti Adelaide Martin, “Big Sister, Larger than Life”, in Miss Ella of Commander’s Palace, Layton, Ut.: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 99