brogan

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No venue could be more fitting, and the two players coincidentally showed up dressed almost exactly alike, in Hogan-style driving caps, tan-cashmere sweaters, pleated wool trousers and brown-leather brogan shoes.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 20, 2019

Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the lobby, the spy paused to scuff at a frayed carpet edge with the toe of one glossy, custom-made Irish brogan.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class come to school in their one pair of overalls and only pair of brogan shoes."

From Time Magazine Archive

She had on brass-toed brogan shoes, a old faded cotton dress dat was plum up to her knees,—dem days, long dresses was stylish—and she wore a old bonnet.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration