cowboy boot

noun

: a boot made with a high arch, a high Cuban heel, and usually fancy stitching

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Trade your hiking boots for cowboy boots during Country Night Gstaad, the annual country music festival held in the resort town every September. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025 There were video game plushies, Bratz shirts, Minecraft totems, along with some Southern fetishism like cowboy boots and half-unbuttoned flannels. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025 Marc Piasecki To go with her mulberry Vivienne Westwood dress and pointed cowboy boots (Side note: Anyone else getting major Hocus Pocus déja vu with this outfit?), Parker wore two necklaces. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 May 2025 Brazilian footwear brand Melissa and Parisian label Maldito are dipping their toes into the western footwear category with a new collaboration offering an inventive take on the cowboy boot. Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cowboy boot

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cowboy boot was in 1884

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“Cowboy boot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowboy%20boot. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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