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词组 brogans
释义 brogans
noun
heavy work shoes US, 1835
From the Gaelic. During the US Civil War, the sturdy and durable leather shoes issued to infantrymen were nicknamed Brogans or Jefferson Booties.
  • They took one of the opened bottles with them from which Agatson drank continually, brazenly, as he stumbled along in his oversize G.I. brogans. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 219, 1952
  • Vice President Nixon will put his shoes under Ike’s bed before the voters decide whether he can fill the presidential brogans. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 19, 6 September 1960
  • He let her up to put her skirt and shoes on while he finished lacing his brogans. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, 1968
  • [M]any of us bought him a beer and a Polish sausage when he came in with his paint-splattered cords and brown brogans, broke as ever. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 47, 1972
  • The very next evening, Daddy came home with shoes for Betty, John and me–three pairs of black, sturdy, strong, steel-toed brogans. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 37, 1978
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