shoe-leather
/ˈʃuːˌlɛðɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk.
Example Sentences
- "Outside of patent leathers and specialties, I know of no other types of shoe leathers which are commanding replacement costs today."
- "Naturally, this aristocrat of shoe leathers costs more than ordinary leather – and, for the past two years, it has been all but unobtainable in this country."
- "Notable in feminine footgear of the first two decades was the increasing number of different shoe leathers consisting of box calf, white calf, colored kids, buck and antelope."
- "Shoe Leathers. Leather used in making shoes is of two kinds – bottom, or sole, leather and upper leather."
- "British authors have long suspected and documented that vegetable-tanned leather was responsible for many of their unexplained shoe leather-positive patients."
- "In old times, if a Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, he walked to Ulverstone; spent nothing but shoe-leather on the road, drank at the streams, and if he spent a couple of batz when he got to Ulverstone, "it was the end of the world." But now, he would never think of doing such a thing! He first walks three miles in a contrary direction, to a railroad station, and then travels by railroad twenty-four miles to Ulverstone, paying two shillings fare."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃuːˌlɛðɚ/
- British English: /ˈʃuːˌlɛðə/