geta
[ get-uh; Japanese ge-tah ]
noun,plural ge·ta, ge·tas.
a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
Origin of geta
11880–85; <Japanese, perhaps by ellipsis from shita-geta, equivalent to shita below, under + -geta, combining form of keta slat, lath; or ge (<Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese xià below) + Japanese (i)ta board
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How to use geta in a sentence
Not only in the inscriptions of the time of Septimius Severus, but even in the reliefs we everywhere find Getas figure erased.
Old Rome | Robert BurnTo Getas salutation, Demea asks churlishly, as not at first knowing him, Who are you?
A History of Caricature and Grotesque | Thomas WrightThis obviously contradicts the following transit nostra feros si modo Musa Getas.
The Last Poems of Ovid | Ovidgeta lede hrewic heldon, the Getas held the place of corpses (lay dead upon it), 1215; pret.
Beowulf | UnknownShe is mentioned as the opposite to the mild, dignified Hygd, the queen of the Getas.
Beowulf | Unknown
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