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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
white-shoe

▶adjective US informal denoting a law firm or other company owned and run by members of the Wasp elite and regarded as conservative.

– origin with ref. to the white shoes fashionable among Ivy League college students in the 1950s.

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