shoe-tie

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English

Noun

shoe-tie (plural shoe-ties)

  1. (now rare) A shoelace.
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.5:
      [] as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr Casaubon's feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope.