immaculately-shod

Updated: May 3, 2025

"Now go and fetch the key." He belonged to the ancient family of Rákosy, who had owned property on both banks of the Maros for the past eight centuries, and Feri Rákosy, the twentieth-century representative of his mediæval forbears, was a good-looking young fellow of the type so often met with among the upper classes in Hungary: quite something English in appearance well set-up, well-dressed, well-groomed from the top of his smooth brown hair to the tips of his immaculately-shod feet in the eyes an expression of habitual boredom, further accentuated by the slight, affected stoop of the shoulders and a few premature lines round the nose and mouth; and about his whole personality that air of high-breeding and of good, pure blood which is one of the chief characteristics of the true Hungarian aristocracy.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - A Bride of the Plains