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wooden shoe

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wooden shoe1

First recorded in 1600–10

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Example Sentences

As some Frenchman has said, “The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending.”

A wooden shoe was one of the first things patented at Richmond.

I cannot tell you all the things that found their way into that wooden shoe.

The wooden shoe was lying where she had left it, but you could never, never guess what was in it.

In the bottom of the box was a small wooden shoe, and though clumsy in comparison, yet evidently fashioned to fit a lady's foot.

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