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Definition of Heelless
1. a. Without a heel.
Definition of Heelless
1. Adjective. Without a heel. Shoes that have a flat sole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heelless
1. lacking heels [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heelless
Literary usage of Heelless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woodcraft for Women by Kathrene Sutherland (Gedney) Pinkerton (1916)
"The capacity to wear heelless boots is more important in winter than it is in
... All winter woods footwear is heelless. Moccasins and sealskin boots are ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A name given to heelless low-cut shoes for children, having deeply ... A heelless
canvas shoe, usually fastened with laces or thongs about the ankle, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and consist merely of a thin jersey, a pair of drawers covering the waist and
loins and extending downwards to the top of the knee cap, and heelless ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... or the county ladies paying visits of ceremony, in monstrous muffs, heelless
slippers laced over open- worked silk stockings, short flounced skirts, ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... heelless slippers dangling from the ends of her toes, her own boots standing
up on end to dry, ..."
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