chopines

[choh-peen, chop-in]

cho·pine

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


Origin:
1570–80; < Spanish chapín, equivalent to chap(a) (< Middle French chape chape) + -in -in1
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