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I wonder what "list" means in this context: "Upon this Mr Casby rose up in his list shoes, and with a slow, heavy step (he was of an elephantine build), made for the door. He had a long wide-skirted bottle-green coat on, and a bottle-green pair of trousers, and a bottle-green waistcoat. The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal."
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My copy of Little Dorrit has a note saying:
list shoes: Shoes made of thick cloth (the strips of selvaging or waste borders from cut bolts of fabric).
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