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loafer

[loh-fer] / ˈloʊ fər /


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The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

“She’s a loafer for life now,” Kelce confirmed.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025

Leave it to Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson to take a staid loafer and make it surreal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

The song is the unhurried portrait of a loafer on his front porch, watching tourists sunbathe while a pot of shrimp is beginning to boil.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

But when we went by The Coffee Pot Cafe, there were faces at the window, and a loafer or two paused on the sidewalk to see us pass.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

That’s a bargain: Men’s Gucci loafers go for $1,090 today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Those still open tend to have generators, menus priced in dollars and a clientele of well-connected Cubans, decked in salmon shirts and tassel loafers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Weger holds a pair of sparkling JVB X Nomasei ‘Nono’ loafers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The illicit purchases also included games consoles, a £100 chopstick set, £100 men's loafers and £2.50 hand cream.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

This afternoon the town had been deserted except for the loafers who stood around the filling station and the street comers.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin


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