patent leather
Example Sentences
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Everybody should have some patent leather in their closet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
One of her earliest childhood memories is fixating on a pair of pair of shiny patent leather shoes, when she was about five years old, and getting her father to buy them for her.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
In contrast, the menswear collection featured sharp tailoring and shorts, complimented by patent leather shoes in black, green and brown with prominent silver buckles and belts.
From Reuters ● Sep. 18, 2023
The new vibe was less elegance and more nightclub — house music, zebra prints and red patent leather — that you might be admitted to if you were cool enough.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023
Petra Cotes helped him pack his clothes and bade him farewell without shedding a tear, but she forgot to give him the patent leather shoes that he wanted to wear in his coffin.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
