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referred to in Hamlet, are slashed shoes.
“Would not this, sir … with two Provencal roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?”—Act iii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.