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footwear

[foot-wair]

noun

  1. articles to be worn worn on the feet, foot, as shoes, slippers, or boots.



footwear

/ ˈʊˌɛə /

noun

  1. anything worn to cover the feet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of footwear1

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; foot + wear
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Clothing and footwear brands are among the businesses hit hardest by tariffs as they make goods in Asian countries, which have faced steep levies from the US.

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Instead, Carse changed to a narrower boot, got new insoles and cut a different hole into his footwear.

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Cynthia Erivo sits in a Century City recording studio on a recent afternoon, mulling over her choice of footwear the other night.

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One of the boys expresses mild envy about other people’s footwear before his father makes them sprint into a field to cut open a bull, pull out its organs and gnaw on them.

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The festival covered 800 acres by this point and many revellers were photographed dancing to the acts in their wellington boots rather than the latest fancy footwear.

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