| 单词 | wooden shoe |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswooden shoe wooden shoe n. a shoe made of wood, as the French sabot n.; in the 18th cent. popularly taken as typical of the miserable condition of the French peasantry. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > wood sabot1607 wooden shoe1607 racket1846 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 299 Woodden shoes properly called sabots. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 19 Two hundred thousand Pair of Wooden Shooes, Who, God be thank'd, had nothing left to lose. 1716 J. Addison Drummer Prol. sig. A4 Round-heads and Wooden-shooes are standing Jokes. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xix. 207 What, give up liberty, property, and, as the Gazetteer says, lie down to be saddled with wooden shoes! 1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Three More Lett. on Catholics iii. 8 He calls all hands upon deck; talks to them of King, country, glory, sweethearts, gin, French prison, wooden shoes, Old England, and hearts of oak. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. ix. 210 King William..our immortal deliverer from papists and pretenders, and wooden shoes and warming pans. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 62 In France great numbers of the peculiar wooden shoes, called ‘sabots’, are made of Alder. < as lemmas |
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