Brewer's: Razed Shoes

referred to in Hamlet, are slashed shoes.

“Would not this, sir ... with two Proveneal roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?” - Act iii. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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