Meaning of bootwear | Babel Free

Definitions

Boots (as a category of clothing).

uncountable

Examples

“In the autumn of 1951, the 1st Marine Division received a new piece of cold weather clothing: the boot, combat, rubber, insulated or Insulated Rubber Boot. No one called it anything else but “Mickey Mouse Boots” since their outsized shape⟳ and black color gave the wearer some podiatric similarity to Hollywood’s famous rodent. […] One hour of inactivity could bring⟳ on an attack of frostbite. The standing operating procedure, therefore, for Mickey Mouse bootwear included a provision that each Marine had to dry his feet and change⟳ to dry socks at least once a day and preferably more often.”

“Who cares when there are bigger issues, such as finding an ugg boot that doesn’t look⟳ like⟳ an Ugg. Given our nippy winters of late, you’d think⟳ this problem would have⟳ been solved by now. But a cure for unattractive bootwear is taking its time.”

“I was in her black lace-up boots, which gave me some extra height. […] I clacked down the stairs in that horrible bootwear.”

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