0 a way of speaking English, especially that of Irish or Scottish speakers: --
1 strong leather shoes, usually worn by men, often with a pattern in the leather --
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.
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 word brogue was first used to describe a form of outdoor, country walking shoe in the early twentieth century traditionally worn by men.
At that time the brogue was not considered to be appropriate for other occasions, social or business.
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.
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.
We were accosted in a market place by a dishevelled man with a very heavy brogue, complaining about the level of rents.
Footwear was dress shoes and brogues.
