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Definition of Chopine
1. Noun. A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole.
Definition of Chopine
1. n. A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
Definition of Chopine
1. Noun. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 liters of fluid, 1/3 the volume of a standard bottle ¹
2. Noun. A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chopine
1. a type of shoe [n -S] - See also: shoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chopine
Literary usage of Chopine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1852)
"Tho Turkish ladies of the sixteenth century, and very probably much earlier, wore
a very high shoe known in Europe by the ваше of a " chopine. ..."
2. Etymologicon Magnum, Or Universal Etymological Dictionary, on a New Plan by Walter Whiter (1800)
"By -'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to " heaven, than when I saw you last, by
the altitude of a chopine. " Pray God, your voice, like a piece of ..."
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