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Chopines - 2 dictionary results

cho⋅pine

[choh-peen, chop-in]
–noun
a shoe having a thick sole, usually of cork, suggesting a short stilt, worn esp. by women in 18th-century Europe after its introduction from Turkey.
Also, chopin.


Origin:
1570–80; < Sp chapín, equiv. to chap(a) (< MF chape chape ) + -in -in 1
cho·pine   (chō-pēn', chŏ-, chŏp'ĭn)   
n.  A woman's shoe worn in the 16th and 17th centuries that featured a very high, thick sole.

[Obsolete French chapin, from Old Spanish, from chapa, plate, covering, from Old French; see chape.]
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