Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a boot or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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boot +‎ -like

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Examples

  • 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.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • He wore a short cloak, fastened by a large bronze pin at the right shoulder, high, bootlike sandals, and a broad-rimmed hat.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • I rose up on my elbows but he, with the heel of his bootlike sandal, thrust me back to the sawdust.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • Blood flowed down his leg, running among, and over, the thongs of the high, bootlike sandal he wore.

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • 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.

    Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • The sound of these bootlike sandals on the atones of the street was clear and regular.

    Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • 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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