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A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
Answer for the clue "A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole ", 8 letters:
chopines
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole [syn: chopine , platform , platforms ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of chopine English)
Usage examples of chopines.
Wearing a green damask kirtle, a bodice in the Tudor colours of green and white, heavily smbroidered with gold thread, a gem-encrusted French hood, and :hree-inch high chopines - wooden platform shoes - to increase her tieight and thus enable the people to see her, Jane walked in stately Drocession through the crowded Tower precincts to the main entrance :o the royal apartments, where the Marquess of Winchester waited with the Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir John Bridges, and a detachment af the Yeomen of the Guard to receive her.
Yestereve's snowfall and the warmth of today's sun had left the streets well-mired with melting muck At the present moment a pair of tall chopines would have greatly eased her dilemma.