: "brogues" are brogans, right? Heavy "farmer shoes,"
: lace-up-the-front work shoes?
What I call brogues are, I think, also known as wingtips.
Lace-ups,
often with a thick sole, and with the little pinprick
patterns in the
leather up around the toes. I have a pair and I'm going to
wear them
to a wedding tomorrow (not mine).
Aha. My 10th edition Merriam Webster's College Edition says,
"1: a
stout coarse shoe worn formerly in Ireland and the Scottish
Highlands
2: a heavy shoe often with a hobnailed sole: BROGAN 3: a
stout oxford
shoe with perforations and usu. a wing tip"
So, it looks like my shoe knowledge is a little lacking.
However, I
must say I always thought Marlowe sounded pretty sharp in
that scene,
and his shoes would be in sense 3.
Bill
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