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seven-league boots
[ sev-uhn-leeg ]
plural noun
- fairy-tale boots enabling the wearer to reach seven leagues at a stride.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of seven-league boots1
1805–15; translation of French bottes de sept lieues in the fairy tales of C. Perrault, especially Le petit Poucet ( English Hop-o'-my-Thumb )
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Example Sentences
After a little rest, we again sported our seven-league boots, and took a solitary ramble across the Wye.
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I had yet to reach the end of the ridge—a task requiring seven-league boots.
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And it strikes me that if we were to put on my seven-league boots we should go much faster.
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The soldier took the seven-league boots, the invisible cap, sat down upon the flying carpet and went to look for his kingdom.
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Though it flew like a bird, the prince was quite able to keep pace with it, because he had on the seven-league boots.
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