"bootwear" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From boot + -wear. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|boot|wear}} boot + -wear Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bootwear (uncountable)
  1. Boots (as a category of clothing). Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-bootwear-en-noun-6XK8MGXq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -wear

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        {
          "ref": "2001, Allan R. Millett, “The Year of the Boot”, in Drive North: U.S. Marines at the Punchbowl (Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center, page 54",
          "text": "In the autumn of 1951, the 1st Marine Division received a new piece of cold weather clothing: the boot, combat, rubber, insulated or Insulated Rubber Boot. No one called it anything else but “Mickey Mouse Boots” since their outsized shape and black color gave the wearer some podiatric similarity to Hollywood’s famous rodent. […] One hour of inactivity could bring on an attack of frostbite. The standing operating procedure, therefore, for Mickey Mouse bootwear included a provision that each Marine had to dry his feet and change to dry socks at least once a day and preferably more often.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012 February 10, Lisa Armstrong, “Boots taking the ugh out of Ugg”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,739, page 34",
          "text": "Who cares when there are bigger issues, such as finding an ugg boot that doesn’t look like an Ugg. Given our nippy winters of late, you’d think this problem would have been solved by now. But a cure for unattractive bootwear is taking its time.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, pages 22–23",
          "text": "I was in her black lace-up boots, which gave me some extra height. […] I clacked down the stairs in that horrible bootwear.",
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