white-shoe
white-shoe
Definition
☆ white-shoe (-s̸ho̵̅o̅′)
adjective
designating or characteristic of a business company, esp. a law firm or brokerage, in which the partners belong almost exclusively to the white, Protestant, upper-class elite and are thought of as being conservative
Etymology: from the white shoes fashionable at Ivy-League colleges in the 1950s
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