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- noun Plural form of
argyle .
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Examples
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Others can spend hours in the sock aisle at the department store, weighing the pros and cons of buying a pair of wool argyles instead of cotton striped.
Why So Many People Can't Make Decisions Shirley S. Wang 2010
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Yup, at boarding school in the '80s, I used to wear woolly argyles, paired with a knee-length corduroy skirt.
The New Prudery Holly Finn 2011
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Just be sure laces are your one and only statement, and give your other preferred pieces of flair — argyles, pocket squares, suspenders — a well-deserved rest.
Tie One On 2011
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Not to mention the tiny bride and groom golfers, in pastel argyles, all made out of spun sugar.
Mixed Dominance 2010
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Some knock your socks off and some make you wear argyles.
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He made nothing but argyles until he switched to nothing but stirrups in 1963.
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"I do need new socks!" he held up some hideous argyles and did a Vanna White display gesture.
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Even as you read these lines (relativistically speaking), some alien eye or eyes, perhaps set in chitinous, horny lids, are perplexedly scanning one of a pair of argyles which you lost last Tuesday.
Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives 2004
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She was wearing men's socks, a slightly ridiculous pair of fuzzy argyles.
Spin 2005
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Glen plaids, argyles, tattersalls, tartans, and windowpane plaids are everywhere you look.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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