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"footwear" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often shoes (5 letters).
Definitions
covering for a person's feet
Word origin
From foot + -wear.
Used in a sentence
“Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Shoes and boots”8 letters
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