tennis shoe


noun

a sports shoe with a rubber sole (usually pebbled) and a stitched canvas upper that laces over the instep.

Origin of tennis shoe

First recorded in 1890–95

Example sentences from the Web for tennis shoe

  • How well she could remember the tennis-shoe, with its ribbed rubber sole, in place of that highly-polished calf thing!

    Somehow Good |William de Morgan

British Dictionary definitions for tennis shoe

tennis shoe

noun

a rubber-soled canvas shoe tied with laces