bootlace

If you are exceptionally late in the morning; your bootlace always snaps, you say.

The modern French form cordonnier is due to association with cordon, a thong, bootlace, etc.

Mildred abandoned the neat "tennis knot" in which she was tying her bootlace, and sprang up in defence of her character.

Jonah had tied a bit of his bootlace on the hedge just under the spot, and could find it again within a foot.