Definition of "brogues" [brogues]

• Plural form of brogue. (noun)

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• "Though the number they'll croon remains shrouded in secrecy, their duet will see the stage festooned with glittering Swarovski crystals, an operation that could cost insurers dear when the warbling high notes of those twin Irish brogues reach a certain frequency and shatter the pretty decorations."
• "His shoes were of the double-soled description, which ought more properly to be called brogues; and into them, on the evening previous to his departure, his father had driven tackets and sparables innumerable, until they became like a plate of iron or a piece of warlike workmanship, resembling the scaled cuirass of a mailed knight in the olden time;"
• "The poorer fort of people wear a kind of fhoes made of untanned leather, which are called brogues; with blue bonnets of a particular woollen manufaiSlure."