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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bootlace
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
▪ He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
▪ His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces.
▪ It had a small, dandyish white shirt with a bootlace tie.
▪ Peter ambled after them and joined other fathers who would doubtless have to help with bootlaces.
▪ The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.
▪ The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bootlace

bootlace \bootlace\ n. a long lace for fastening boots.

Wiktionary
bootlace

n. A long lace for fastening boots.

WordNet
bootlace

n. a long lace for fastening boots

Usage examples of "bootlace".

The father had given his young son a lecture about Liquorice Bootlaces when he had caught him eating one in bed.

Paks tied her bootlaces, straightened her belt and empty sheath, and smoothed the sheet on her bunk one last time.

He picked up four discarded bayonets and took the leather bootlaces off two corpses.

He threaded the bootlaces into the holes at the shoulders and waist of the breastplate, then waited.

Kelly daughter, little Bridget, tore through the gate with her pinafore half off and her bootlaces flapping.

It was topped off by a generous ration of honey-blonde hair taken severely back and tied by a bootlace bow of electrum ribbon.

They stood at the north door in a dark and stuffy hallway, tightening bootlaces, adjusting belts, putting fresh clips into their Berettas.

Northwade for one of the more unpleasant products of World War I, a man who had successfully conceived the notion of selling inferior bootlaces to the Allied armies for three times their cost, and had gained for himself much wealth by that patriotic service.

The Magnificent Crecca sometimes wondered if Furlong could tie his own bootlaces, or if he had to bully someone else into tying them for him.

If she learned the whole Iphigenia play, word for word, and if she cleaned up her room and did the dishes by herself and then dressed perfectly, without one dangling button or wrinkled bootlace, then they wouldn’.

Private Hobbley, Ginger to his friends, was nineteen and lived in Ettercap Street, where until recently he made bootlaces.

It might possibly have been a graceful dive, if Melene hadn't already tied his bootlaces to the chairlegs, and Doc his neck to the backrest height adjustor.