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Keeping Up Appearances vocabulary
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brogue
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Definition:1. a leather dress shoe with wing tips2. untanned leather shoes formerly worn in some regions of Scotland and Ireland
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Liz: [on phone with Hyacinth] Yes Hyacinth, yes I have a tweed costume, and my country brogues, right, see you at 3:30.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Please Mind Your Head (1993)
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I stared at the two pairs of shoe before me. Mr. Norton’s were white, trimmed with black. They were custom made and there beside the cheap tan brogues of the farmer
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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his father is a fish-tackle seller in John Street, Kilkenny, who keeps a three-halfpenny shop, where you may buy everything from a cheese to a cheese-toaster, from a felt hat to a pair of brogues, from a pound of brown soap to a yard of huckaback towels.
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BLOOM: (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye)
James Joyce. Ulysses
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