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Congress gaiter   /kˈɑŋgrəs gˈeɪtər/   Listen
Congress gaiter

noun
1.
An ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides.  Synonyms: congress boot, congress shoe.





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"Congress gaiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... regard him. "If she had any ambition she would be anything—just like some other lazy-boots," and now she gave the large, dangling congress gaiter of her husband a little push with the point of her slipper, for purposes of identification, as the newspapers say. "But the only ambition she's got is for her daughter, and she is proud of her, and she would spoil her ...
— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells


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