Exempel på brogue

• A few of them spoke in a unique dialect, a "brogue" riddled with odd turns of phrase and vocabulary.

• Their stockings were made of the same stuff as the plaid and their shoes were called brocks (brogues).

• Jeans and slacks are worn deliberately short (either hemmed or rolled) to show off boots, or to show off socks when wearing loafers or brogues.

• Our shoemaker makes primarily men's brogues, a common style of work shoe during the mid-nineteenth century.

• Over time perceptions have changed and brogues are now considered appropriate in most contexts, including business.

• Brogues were traditionally considered to be outdoor or country footwear not otherwise appropriate for casual or business occasions, but brogues are now considered appropriate in most contexts.

• Footwear was dress shoes and brogues.

• We were accosted in a market place by a dishevelled man with a very heavy brogue, complaining about the level of rents.

• I had to listen more carefully to him than is sometimes the case as the brogue was sometimes difficult to follow, but it was welcome to my ears.

• She speaks in a thick brogue and can terrorize her entire family with little effort - no member of her family is willing to cross her.

• At that time the brogue was not considered to be appropriate for other occasions, social or business.

• The word brogue was first used to describe a form of outdoor, country walking shoe in the early twentieth century traditionally worn by men.

• A shoe with a wingtip-style toecap but no perforations is known as an austerity brogue, while a plain-toe shoe with wingtip-style perforations is a blind brogue.

• The toe cap of a full brogue is both perforated and serrated along its edges and includes additional decorative perforations in the center of the toe cap.