brogan
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No venue could be more fitting, and the two players coincidentally showed up dressed almost exactly alike, in Hogan-style driving caps, tan-cashmere sweaters, pleated wool trousers and brown-leather brogan shoes.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 20, 2019
"It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class come to school in their one pair of overalls and only pair of brogan shoes."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the lobby, the spy paused to scuff at a frayed carpet edge with the toe of one glossy, custom-made Irish brogan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
It wasn't a blow exactly; it was more like a clout from a heavily-shod blunt-ended brogan.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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