shoe-tie

noun

A shoelace.

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Meanings

nounshoe-tie (plural shoe-ties)

plural shoe-ties

  1. archaicA shoelace.

    […] as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr Casaubon's feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope.

    1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.5
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APA

shoe-tie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoe-tie

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“shoe-tie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoe-tie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoe-tie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoe-tie.

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