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- noun Plural form of
workshoe .
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Examples
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The woman had apparently gone up another shoe size while her patent leather workshoes stayed exactly the same.
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On a late June school night my father decided to ride our little brown pony, the tips of his workshoes dragging the ground, two miles up and down country roads in a fine rain to the Bivouac.
DADDY'S GIRLS 2008
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Tell that to me after I go to JC Penney and buy a new pair of workshoes, identical to the ones I bought last year and pay $21.34 more (and that was after a 10% discount coupon).
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They ran to Caitlin at full speed, workshoes splatting hard against concrete.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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They ran to Caitlin at full speed, workshoes splatting hard against concrete.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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My Italian loafers are the only workshoes I have, so I got some sneakers to wear in the office.
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(Nevertheless, whenever the young philistines of Colonial Pines fired sarcastic barbs about her -weird" paintings, Boomer threatened to remove the plaque from their gums with his steel-toed workshoes, a promise they were sure he would keep.)
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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I can’t see his clothes; but I know he’ll have worn his perpetual uniform for work or ease—a narrow-brimmed brown felt pork-pie hat, khaki trousers and shirt, both starched and pressed like new cardboard; no tie but the collar button fastened and the collar wings pinned through neatly with a silver bar; suspenders, no belt and spotless hightop leather workshoes.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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I can’t see his clothes; but I know he’ll have worn his perpetual uniform for work or ease—a narrow-brimmed brown felt pork-pie hat, khaki trousers and shirt, both starched and pressed like new cardboard; no tie but the collar button fastened and the collar wings pinned through neatly with a silver bar; suspenders, no belt and spotless hightop leather workshoes.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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