brogue
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sings Irish folk classics with a brogue
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Afterward we went into the small museum at the back, which had displays of the special white bow ties Jinnah used to order from Paris, his three-piece suits tailored in London, his golf clubs and a special traveling box with drawers for twelve pairs of shoes including his favorite two-tone brogues.† (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013
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A thick red carpet sucks at the soles of Werner's brogues; electric bulbs burn in a chandelier above the table; roses twine across the wallpaper.† (source)

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He was wearing a red tie with a pale yellow figure; black oxford brogues; a beautifully tailored navy suit.† (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013
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They sat in comfortable silence while she watched him buffing his brogues with a yellow duster.† (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001
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She has the same green wool knee socks, sloppily down around her ankles, the brown school brogues scuffed at the toes, one lace broken and knotted, the yellowish-brown hair with the bangs falling into her eyes, the eyes gray-green.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

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"He seemed extremely intelligent," Franz states in an exotic brogue that sounds like a blend of Scottish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Carolina drawl.† (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996
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His clothing for the occasion had been carefully chosen—a white oxford cloth shirt, a black leather jacket, slim-fitting khaki trousers, a pair of suede brogues with rubber soles that made no sound when he walked.† (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016
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He was a handsome young man in his late twenties, with a Scottish brogue and strawberry blond hair.† (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
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They were custom made and there beside the cheap tan brogues of the farmer they had the elegantly slender well-bred appearance of fine gloves.† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952
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Is that a brogue I detect in your accent?† (source) Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 2008
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Again only the soles and heels of his brogues were visible to Franny.† (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957
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Mallory Keen spoke in a faint Irish brogue.† (source)
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But he could see her sometimes, going around the village in her brogues and tweeds, with her notebooks and her pencils, asking innumerable questions of everyone.† (source)
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Franklin: "We loved his stories told in that Kentucky brogue."† (source)
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The rest of us wore rough tweeds and brogues.† (source)

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