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white-shoe

Definition of white-shoe

adjective

US informal
  • denoting a company, especially a law firm, owned and run by members of the Wasp elite, generally regarded as cautious and conservative.

Origin:

with reference to the white shoes fashionable among Ivy League college students in the 1950s

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Definition of white-shoe in the US English dictionary

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