Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a long-established business known for reputable service and a wealthy clientele.
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- noun US, slang A stereotypical
Ivy League student. - adjective US, slang
Effeminate orimmature . - adjective US, slang
Establishment ; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
Afternoon Fizz: Jason Bennett Pulls One Over on PubliCola « PubliCola 2010
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
pingpong « PubliCola 2010
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
The Single Speed Cyclocross World Championship Heads to Seattle « PubliCola 2010
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
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Mr. Kanfer avoids naming Bogart's many imitators, but I can recall that even before his death Bogart's spirit glimmered in Edward R. Murrow (the trench coat, the cigarette); in Jack Kennedy (Irish toughness, Harvard wit); in old white-shoe veterans of lonely World War II parachute drops with the OSS; in the writer Lillian Hellman, until she was revealed as a sanctimonious liar not long before her death.
Cool Is as Cool Was Henry Allen 2011
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A week or two after Salmi and Kosnoff sent their complaint to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, they headed to a Seattle high-rise to the law offices of Stafford Frey Cooper, a white-shoe firm that defended Fortune 500 clients from civil lawsuits throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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A week or two after Salmi and Kosnoff sent their complaint to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, they headed to a Seattle high-rise to the law offices of Stafford Frey Cooper, a white-shoe firm that defended Fortune 500 clients from civil lawsuits throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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I wonder how the white-shoe firms felt about missing out on this one ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Law Clerk Without a Law Degree 2010
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Advokat is an attorney at one of Seattle's white-shoe law firms.
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