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loafer

[loh-fer] / ˈloʊ fər /


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The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“She’s a loafer for life now,” Kelce confirmed.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

The song is the unhurried portrait of a loafer on his front porch, watching tourists sunbathe while a pot of shrimp is beginning to boil.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2023

Rorem’s gentle, post-Romantic gestures were always tempered by notes of existential angst — there was ever a pebble in Ned’s proverbial loafer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

I've just started to say the T in Tiny when he comes running out of his room, one black leather loafer on and the other in his hand, shouting, "Go, Grayson, go go."

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan




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