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patent leather

noun as in leather with glossy surface

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He once kicked a movie star out of his shop because the star brought back a pair of patent leather shoes that he claimed were defective.

At Amazon’s studios, she sits in a bouclé armchair on her podcast set, dressed like a demure interviewer: patent leather loafers, cuffed jeans, a sweater set, a string of pearls.

Wearing a dark suit and tie with patent leather loafers, Williams played his 4 1/2-minute composition backed by the Philharmonic, joined by student musicians.

One of her earliest childhood memories is fixating on a pair of pair of shiny patent leather shoes, when she was about five years old, and getting her father to buy them for her.

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When she came into the room, Deirdre was wearing a pink dress and black patent leather shoes.

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