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Definition of Chopines
1. chopine [n] - See also: chopine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chopines
Literary usage of Chopines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"... humbler class—Character and attire of ladies—Their personal appearance—The
chopines or Zilve—Their long prevalence and ultimate abolition—Pietro Casola ..."
2. Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical by Eliza Aria, Mrs. Eliza (Davis) Aria (1906)
"The sexes, too, shared a love for curls and the hats of broad brims, whose flopping
habits proved so inconvenient that CLOGS AND chopines. they were turned ..."
3. The Human foot, anatomy, deformities and treatment by William Mathias Scholl (1916)
"The pantofle was a modified form of the "chopines," being worn in Italy at this
... ladies' high-heeled shoes in England were frequently called chopines. ..."
4. Historical Collections Relating to Northamptonshire: Family Histories by John Taylor (1896)
"Raymond describes the Venetian women as wearing chopines as high as a man's leg,
and says they " walke betweene two handmaids, majestically deliberating of ..."
5. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"ENGLISH CLOGS 365 chopines 367 Drawing from chopines in the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford. The tallest chopine had a sole about nine inches thick. ..."
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