congress shoe

1. 1.

   an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides

   Synonymscongress bootcongress gaiter

   Broadershoe

Questions about congress shoe

What does congress shoe mean?

congress shoe means "an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides".

What is another word for congress shoe?

Close synonyms include congress boot, congress gaiter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is congress shoe a common word?

congress shoe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.