white-shoe

white-shoe

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

Origin of white-shoe

from the white shoes fashionable at Ivy-League colleges in the 1950s

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white-shoe

adjective

Of or being a long-established business known for reputable service and a wealthy clientele: “took a job at … [a] pronouncedly white-shoe investment-banking firm” ( Connie Bruck )

Origin of white-shoe

From the white buckskin shoes once commonly worn by Ivy League undergraduates and considered typical dress of the American upper class

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Noun

(plural white-shoes)

(US, slang) A stereotypical Ivy League student.

Adjective

(comparative more white-shoe, superlative most white-shoe)

(US, slang) Effeminate or immature.
(US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.

Origin

From white + shoe; their traditional footwear.

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