elastic sides

See also: elastic-sides

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elastic sides pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Slip-on boots similar to riding boots with a piece of elastic set into the ankles.
    • 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix‎, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, Part IV, Chapter I, p. 247:
      But Mary preferred to sit quietly on the beach. "The dressing and undressing is such a trouble," said she. As it was, one of her elastic-sides was full of sand.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 177:
      Brilliant Lace [was] decked out for the solemnization in bright blue shirt and spotless yellow corduroys and bright tan elastic-sides and velour wideawake.
    • 2006, Brian Taylor, The Moonlight Stallion and Other Yarns from the Australian Outback‎, Australia: Hachette, published 2012:
      I was wearing a pair of elastic sides so, being a mug, slipped them off and put one on each of his horns. We all stood around for the photo.
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