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Definition of Overshoes
1. overshoe [n] - See also: overshoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overshoes
Literary usage of Overshoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"India Rubber overshoes is one of the greatest blessings of physical discovery.
They resist moisture—they are impervious to wet ; they keep the feet warm and ..."
2. Wisconsin Plays: Second Series; Original One-act Plays from the Repertory of by Samuel Marshall Ilsley, Laura (Case) Sherry, Howard Mumford Jones, Thornton Gilman (1918)
"MATTIE BLACK I came back after my overshoes. MRS. ALLEN Did you leave them?
STONE [To MATTIE.] He ain't here. MATTIE BLACK He was here. I know it. ..."
3. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"... in India Rubber overshoes.—Fairies in Thick Boots and Demons in Stovepipe
Hats.—The World Upside down.—How to muke a Crowd of Democrats Yell. ..."
4. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1893)
"Listening to song-birds and walking through rose-petal snow to-day, and a week
hence in mittens and overshoes, to the accompaniment of the whistling north ..."
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