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# brogue

«brogue» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong leather shoe with small holes punched in its…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (brogues)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A brogue is a strong leather shoe with small holes punched in its pattern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/#m1)

2) A brogue is a strong accent, the way people speak in parts of Ireland or Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in Irish tales the word is used for the shoe, and for the speech of Irish people

### examples

- He polished his brown brogues before the dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/#x1)
- Her brogue made the old words sound lovely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/#x2)
- The name of the sprite comes from an old Irish word for a shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brogue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brogue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.