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Definition of Bootlaces
1. bootlace [n] - See also: bootlace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlaces
Literary usage of Bootlaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classic Tales by Famous Authors by Frederick Brigham De Berard (1905)
"bloaters, some bootlaces, and a bundle or two of firewood, compose a stock which
... She has I other sources of income than the candles and i the bootlaces; ..."
2. Figure-skating by Montagu Sneade Monier-Williams (1898)
"... as well as the following useful articles: a gimlet and screw-driver, and set
of screws; a button-hook for tightening up the bootlaces ; one or two extra ..."
3. The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs (1905)
"But when artists get tired of painting you as Abraham, and no one will buy your
bootlaces in the street, what can yon do but go from house to house asking ..."
4. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"I returned with an excellent housekeeper, and with a larger basketful of inferior
Swedish matches, bootlaces, cakes of black lead, and little figures made ..."
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