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patent leathers

noun

Definitions

  1. Patent-leather shoes.

    • […] his patent leathers were beautifully polished, and his hair curled by machinery.
    • What if the fertilizer is sometimes on the sidewalk, gravel walk, or front porch, and the first dark night finds it distributed by the Cinderellian slipper or patent leathers of some party bound pedestrian?
    • Kids with well-worn gym shoes mingled with children wearing patent leathers.

  2. plural of patent leather

The neighborhood

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