bootlace

[US]/'buːtleɪs/
[UK]/'butles/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a cord or leather strip for fastening a boot
Word Forms
Pluralbootlaces

Phrases & Collocations

tie your bootlace

loose bootlace

broken bootlace

Real-world Examples

In fact, although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything—except a few things that you want in a hurry—like bootlaces, hair-pins and mutton chops.

Source: Peter Rabbit and His Friends (Part 2)

What was the truth about these houses, for example, dim and festive now with their red windows in the dusk, but raw and red and squalid, with their sweets and their bootlaces, at nine o'clock in the morning?

Source: A room of one's own.

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