Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's shoe worn in the 1500s and 1600s that featured a very high, thick sole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very high clog or patten, of Oriental origin, in some cases resembling a short stilt, formerly worn by women under their shoes to elevate them from the ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bottle ofwine (usuallyBordeaux ) containing 0.250liters of fluid, 1/3 the volume of a standard bottle - noun A type of women's
platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?
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Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.
Monsieur Lecoq ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.
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In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine.
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Take for example a chopine 3 cups/750 ml of good milk. . .
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Take for example a chopine 3 cups/750 ml of good milk. . .
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: —
Ulysses 2003
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"You will have a chopine of ale, Baldy," said he to the old wreck; "sometimes it's all the difference between hell-fire and content, and -- for God's sake buy the bairn a pair of boots!"
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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By r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
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He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low:
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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