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Shoelace   /ʃˈulˌeɪs/   Listen
Shoelace

noun
1.
A lace used for fastening shoes.  Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoestring.





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"Shoelace" Quotes from Famous Books



... Whole place gone to hell. Wrongfully condemned. Murder. The murderer's image in the eye of the murdered. They love reading about it. Man's head found in a garden. Her clothing consisted of. How she met her death. Recent outrage. The weapon used. Murderer is still at large. Clues. A shoelace. The body to be exhumed. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
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... John's mind flamed up against Luther Hansen. Elizabeth was always quoting Luther. He was glad he had let her see just now that she need not quote that common Swede to him any more. He didn't know a necktie from a shoelace! Hugh might have asked him to witness the will, but Hugh had seen fit to leave the money to them, all the same. Whatever else hurt, the money was his, and he'd turn everything into cattle, and get rich, and get out of this ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
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... of her," said Grandmother brusquely. "She was a sentimental, fanciful creature. She might have married well but she preferred to waste her life pining over the memory of a man who was not worthy to untie the shoelace of a Laurance." ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Words linked to "Shoelace" :   shoe string, aglet, shoestring, lacing, shoe, lace, aiglet


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