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pəˌdrɪl noun
1.
a flat shoe with a cloth upper, a rope sole, and sometimes lacing that ties around the ankle.
2.
a casual shoe resembling this, often with a wedge heel instead of a flat sole.
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| —n | |
| a light shoe with a canvas upper, esp with a braided cord sole | |
| [C19: from French, from Provençal espardilho, diminutive of espart | |
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Word Origin & History
espadrille
shoe with soles of hemp-rope (originally worn in the Pyrenees), 1865, from Fr., from Prov. espardillo, from L. spartum, from Gk. sparton "a rope made of spartos," an imported fiber known as "Spanish grass."
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