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Square-toed

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Square´-toed`    (~tōd`)
a.1.Having the toe square.
Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes.
- V. Knox.
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Adj.1.Square-toedsquare-toed - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
priggish, prissy, prudish, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical, prim
proper - marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"
2.square-toed - having a square toe; "square-toed shoes"
squared-toe
toed - having a toe or toes of a specified kind; often used in combination; "long-toed; "five-toed"


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A double-breasted jacket of some dark frieze-like material fitted closely to her figure, while her straight blue skirt, untrimmed and ungathered, was cut so short that the lower curve of her finely-turned legs was plainly visible beneath it, terminating in a pair of broad, flat, low-heeled and square-toed shoes.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
His left boot has a coarse, square-toed sole, with an iron band round the heel.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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