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oxfords, plural;
  1. A type of lace-up shoe with a low heel

  2. A heavy cotton cloth chiefly used to make shirts

  1. a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
  2. a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
  3. a low shoe laced over the instep
  4. Oxford is a city, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 151,000 living within the district boundary. ...
  5. Oxford is a type of woven fabric, employed to make the fabric in oxford shirts. The warp has two fine yarns paired together. ...
  6. Oxford is the Canadian arm of Pendaflex, and makes organizational filing solutions. It is owned by Esselte.
  7. Oxford is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since the 1935 election, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since the 1999 provincial election.
  8. Oxford is a waterfront town and former colonial port in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. The population was 771 at the 2000 census.
  9. Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract.
  10. alternative capitalization of Oxford (cloth); A shoe of a particular sort
  11. A type of fabric where the fibers are either cotton or blended man-made fibers.
  12. A fine, soft, lightweight woven cotton or blended with manufactured fibers in a 2 x 1 basket weave variation of the plain weave construction.
  13. England, contained one of the premier shrines of Britain, that of St. Frideswide. Certainly her relics were worthy of grateful veneration, especially to Oxford dwellers, for it is to her that the city and university alike appear to owe their existence. ...
  14. serves as a regional centre for a scattered, largely rural population of about half a million people. The city has the largest Park and Ride system in the UK and extensive bus priority lanes and traffic signal systems. ...
  15. prop n. A University near Didcot. Referred to as 'that university' and 'the other place' in Cambridge.
  16. Buggy trousers with high flap and curved pockets
  17. A low-cut, laced shoe of balmoral or blucher design.
  18. A low-top sneaker with laces across the instep; compare to a slip-on.
  19. From Scotland and Ireland, a traditionally plain, low-heeled, leather shoe that's laced and sometimes has decoration.
  20. five shillings (5/-), also called a crown, from cockney rhyming slang oxford scholar = dollar, dollar being slang for a crown.
  21. "Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana," . . . by M. Steinschneider, Berlin, 1852-60. "Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford," by Ad. Neubauer, Oxford, 1886 (2,541 MSS.).
  22. A class of cotton or synthetic soft textiles made with a modified plain or basket weave.  According to the Industrial Fabrics Association International, the fabric originated in Scotland, and is the only survivor of four distinctive fabrics named after universities; the others being Cambridge, ...
  23. has a small basket weave(2 x 1); fine warp and and coarse fill.
  24. A second rate university in the Midlands. Occasionally produces Prime Ministers. See also: The Other Place
  25. A plain basket weave of medium or heavy weight.  Made with a variety of cotton, rayon, or polyester/cotton yarns.  The majority of oxfords are of combed yarns, with heavier filling than warp yarns.  Cheaper grades are mixed carded and combed yarns, and sometimes all carded yarns. ...