Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
boot or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He liked a pair of low black leather bootlike shoes with buckles.
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He then, with his bootlike sandal, turned me to my stomach.
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He wore a short cloak, fastened by a large bronze pin at the right shoulder, high, bootlike sandals, and a broad-rimmed hat.
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I rose up on my elbows but he, with the heel of his bootlike sandal, thrust me back to the sawdust.
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Blood flowed down his leg, running among, and over, the thongs of the high, bootlike sandal he wore.
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I stopped She then, with her foot, white in that high, bootlike, thonged sandal, slid both the pan of meat and the pan of water out of my reach.
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The sound of these bootlike sandals on the atones of the street was clear and regular.
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It's a half-dozen Carmen mountain white-tailed deer, scraping at the ground with bootlike hooves, bending gracile necks to chew on wet soil and lick it dry.
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