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Bootlace

noun

A long lace for fastening boots.

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"Bootlace" Quotes from Famous Books

... exchanged notes of admiration, such as, "Oh, Tommy, what a bonny barrel!" or "Oh, Elspeth, I tell yer that's a dyke, and there's just walls in London," but sometimes Elspeth would stoop hastily, pretending that she wanted to tie her bootlace, but really to brush away a tear, and there were moments when Tommy hung very limp. Each was trying to deceive the other for the other's sake, and one of them was never good at deception. They saw through each ...

— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie

... little people weave their summer curtains, and after that Tony was a marked boy. They loosened the rails before he sat on them, so that down he came on the back of his head; they tripped him up by catching his bootlace, and bribed the ducks to sink his boat. Nearly all the nasty accidents you meet with in the Gardens occur because the fairies have taken an ill-will to you, and so it behoves you to be careful what ...

— Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

Words linked to "Bootlace" : lacing, boot, lace