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bootery

American  
[boo-tuh-ree] / ˈbu tə ri /

noun

plural

booteries

  1. a store selling boots, boot, boots, shoes, etc.

Etymology

Origin of bootery

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; boot 1 + -ery

Example Sentences

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They bought shoes at a fashionable bootery, charged them to President Lincoln.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the final climax came with the front of Holman’s bootery broken out and the party trying on the shoes in the display window only Gay didn’t hear the fire whistle.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Five hundred good reasons allowed, and had long allowed, free bootery to flourish in American seas.

From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Johnston, Mary

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