pedoscopen.
/ˈpɛdəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈpɛdəˌskoʊp/ Chiefly British. Now historical.
An X-ray machine for showing the fitting and movement of the feet inside shoes (formerly common in shoe shops before being withdrawn on health grounds).
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1923 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 560/1 The machine used is called the pedoscope.
1959 Times 30 Apr. 6/5 The use of pedoscopes, although frowned on by The Medical Research Council, was not diminishing.
1967 Punch 22 Nov. 792/3 In one of the earliest scenes Harry, given a vacuum flask to smuggle to Helsinki, finds out what is inside by putting it under the X-ray of a shoe-shop's pediscope.
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Sept. 16 As a child in the 50s, when I was having shoes bought for me I had to stick my feet in an X-ray machine called a pedoscope and could see my feet (and bones) wiggling inside the shoes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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