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  • Recognizable by the inverted "W" shaped cap pattern on their toes, the Wingtips (known as Brogues outside the U.S.) take away much of the stuffiness around formal shoes without becoming a purely informal shoe.

    What the well-dressed foot is wearing 2010

  • [Footnote 6: "Brogues" = shoes.] "Ye're fou, Brockburn, I tellt ye so.

    Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • Backwards novels are a thing I love, and Jenny Turner's LRB essay "Charging about in Brogues" confirms the sense I've already gotten that I can't wait to read Sarah Waters' The Night Watch:

    Backwards novels Jenny Davidson 2006

  • Brogues were formerly made of raw hides, with the hair inwards, and such are perhaps still used in rude and remote parts; but they are said not to last above two days.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • In Sky I first observed the use of Brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • When you and Brogues said goodbye to Joker, were the posts open for discussion?

    NY Daily News 2011

  • Yeah, Brogues , we all knew this but unfortunately the people who count the most didnt.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • Yeah, Brogues , we all knew this but unfortunately the people who count the most didnt.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • Poor Brogues leans a bit more to the left so I'm stuck watching Rachel Maddow.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • Yeah, Brogues , we all knew this but unfortunately the people who count the most didnt.

    NY Daily News 2011

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