brogues

Example Sentences

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The manager pieced together a full ensemble of kilt, jacket, sporran, hose and brogues.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

“Don’t you know the camera requires subtlety?” her mother says in the broadest of stage brogues.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Accessories included two-tone brogues as well as fringed shawls and berets with beaded fringes.

From Reuters • Feb. 26, 2023

A Negro man in old-fashioned brogues and serge britches walked out of the light.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

A thick red carpet sucks at the soles of Werner’s brogues; electric bulbs burn in a chandelier above the table; roses twine across the wallpaper.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr