White-shoe
Origin
From white + shoe; their traditional footwear.
Full definition of white-shoe
Noun
white-shoe
(plural white-shoes)- (US, slang) A stereotypical Ivy League student.
Adjective
white-shoe
- (US, slang) Effeminate or immature.
- (US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
- 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. 26:Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.