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- noun Plural form of
brogan .
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Examples
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I remember dey had to wear dese old big shoes, call brogans, wid brass all cross de toes here.
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An issue of work clothing included a heavy pair of work shoes called brogans, homespun shirts and a pair of jeans pants.
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The grown people wore heavy shoes called brogans while I wore the cast-off shoes of the white ladies.
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Wear same kind of pants on Sunday dat wear every day en same kind of shoes call brogans wid brass toes.
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"All I am sure of is that I have my 'brogans' in."
The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm
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They were made of heavy red leather and were known as "brogans".
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Her feet were incased in a pair of men's cheap "brogans" that Gray could have worn; drops of perspiration gleamed upon her face, and her hair, what little was visible beneath the sunbonnet, was wet and untidy.
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Indian moccassins, answering exactly to the description given by Scott in the notes to the Lady of the Lake, of the kind of brogans of the dun deer's hide which shod the fleet-footed Malise, messenger of the fiery cross.
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The black now ran to the nearest brook, filled one of his "brogans" with water, and, returning, washed my wrist until the tobacco juice was all removed from the wound.
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The footsteps I heard were made by a pair of thick "brogans" of alligator leather, and full thirteen inches in length; which brogans the next moment rested upon the sill of the door directly before my eyes.
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