bootery

English

Alternative forms

• booterie

Etymology

From boot +‎ -ery.

Noun

bootery (plural booteries)

1. A shop selling boots.
   • 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:

     When the final climax came with the front of Holman's bootery broken out and the party trying on the shoes in the display window only Gay didn't hear the fire whistle.