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ox⋅ford

  [oks-ferd]
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–noun
1. Also called Oxford shoe, Oxford tie. a low shoe laced over the instep.
2. Also called oxford cloth. a cotton or synthetic fabric, in plain, twill, or basket weave, constructed on a pattern of two fine yarns woven as one warpwise and one loosely twisted yarn weftwise, for shirts, skirts, and summer sportswear.
Origin:
1580–90; named after Oxford (def. 2)
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Oxford shoe

 
–noun
oxford (def. 1).
Also called Oxford tie.

Origin:
1840–50
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Oxford 
university town in England, M.E. Oxforde, from O.E. Oxnaforda (10c.) lit. "where the oxen ford." As the name for a type of shoe laced over the instep, it is attested from 1721. Oxbridge (1849), a conflation of Oxford and Cambridge, is used in ref. to the characteristics common to the two universities. Oxfam (1963) is short for Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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