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Definition of Toecap
1. Noun. A protective leather or steel cover for the toe of a boot or shoe, reinforcing or decorating it.
Generic synonyms: Protection, Protective Cover, Protective Covering
Specialized synonyms: Wing Tip
Definition of Toecap
1. Noun. The part of a boot that covers the toes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toecap
1. a covering for the tip of a shoe or boot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toecap
Literary usage of Toecap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tobogganing on Crooked Runs by Harry Gibson, F. de B. Strickland (1894)
"They are secured to the boot by a metal plate screwed on to the sole, and in 1894
an improvement was introduced in the shape of a light metal toecap which ..."
2. English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop (1906)
"The shoes, it will be seen, are very broad at the toes, with thick soles, sometimes
made much in the manner of sandals—that is, with only a toecap, ..."
3. A System of Surgery by Frederick Treves, Sir Charles B Ball (1896)
"Under the sock and next the skin, or over a digitated sock, a toecap can be worn,
with an elastic band round the heel, which keeps the toe in a straight ..."
4. Mountain Craft by Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1920)
"I dispense with toecaps, or have a very short one just covering the ends of the
toes, as I have never found a bootmaker who could put on a toecap of the ..."
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