Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the toes square.
- Formal; precise; finical; punctilious; prim.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the toe square.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exaggeratedly proper
- adjective having a square toe
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Examples
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If you are a heel wearer, then the problem, pre-boots, is simply answered — one of the two shoes of the season: Louis Vuitton's square-toed "Beautys" or Prada's pointy-toed crocodile pumps with a leather bow.
Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat Tina Gaudoin 2010
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He relaxed against the back of his rust-pocked chair, stretched his long legs out in front of him, and crossed his ankles, one square-toed Dingo boot sliding over the other.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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He relaxed against the back of his rust-pocked chair, stretched his long legs out in front of him, and crossed his ankles, one square-toed Dingo boot sliding over the other.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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In Jimmy Choo's mirrored, nightclub setting, I spy some mini-heeled, square-toed patents in bright red with studded buckles ( "Morse," £ 250).
Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat Tina Gaudoin 2010
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He relaxed against the back of his rust-pocked chair, stretched his long legs out in front of him, and crossed his ankles, one square-toed Dingo boot sliding over the other.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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He relaxed against the back of his rust-pocked chair, stretched his long legs out in front of him, and crossed his ankles, one square-toed Dingo boot sliding over the other.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The shy, silent child with downcast eyes who left town hobbling on bandaged feet returns a year later as a cheerful and talkative teenager, still wearing a Chinese outfit of delicate brocaded satin but complacently displaying beneath it her fashionably unbound feet in a pair of sturdy square-toed black leather lace-ups “they looked like shoes for a very rough little American boy, and they had steel taps on the heels”.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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A man, obvious from his suit pants and stylish square-toed leather lace-up shoes, walks into the frame.
Good-Bye To All That Margo Candela 2010
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The shoe was not his brown Oxford loafer but a square-toed boot.
Bodily Harm Robert Dugoni 2010
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There were a few notable differences from his old punk-rock companions: They favored square-toed motorcycle boots over the lace-up combat variety; they had terrible hair and listened to even worse music.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
dailyword commented on the word square-toed
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October 3, 2012