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English
Etymology
From high + low.
Noun
highlow (plural highlows)
- An article of men's footwear, typically made of leather, lower in height than a boot, rising just above the ankle, with laces in the front.
1954, William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq., The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, Chapter 6, Paragraph 5:He looks very odd, Clive thinks, very odd and very kind, and he looks like a gentleman, every inch of him:--not like Martin's father, who came to see his son lately in highlows, and a shocking bad hat, and actually flung coppers amongst the boys for a scramble.