saddle oxford

English

Alternative forms

• saddle Oxford

Noun

saddle oxford (plural saddle oxfords)

1. Synonym of saddle shoe
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 27, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 113:

     […] because of her childish gait, or because I had memorized her as always wearing heelless shoes, her saddle oxfords looked somehow too large and too high-heeled for her.

   • 1972 winter, “Panorama of a Century—1934-1943”, in The Anchora of Delta Gamma, volume LXXXIX, number 2:

     The saddle oxford, whether brown and white, black and white, or navy and white, whether by Spaulding or another manufacturer, caught on as something both new and comfortable.

   • 2002, Hal Bynum, The Promise, Beauregard Records and Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     On one foot she had a house shoe and on the other a saddle oxford.

Derived terms

• saddle-oxforded