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Bootlace

noun
1.
A long lace for fastening boots.





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"Bootlace" Quotes from Famous Books



... backwards and forwards with monotonous regularity. They sometimes made as many as three journeys a day, and on one occasion the heavens opened to drop a battered tin bucket on the back of Mr. Grummit as he was tying his bootlace. Five minutes later he spoke of the outrage to Mr. Evans, who had come out ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs
... placed there by some travelling tinker or pedler or what not, by which I knows that the neighbourhood is being made too hot for tramps and vagrants, as they call us. And go back in what disguisement I might, there was no selling a bootlace, nor begging a crust of ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


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