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单词 sandal
释义

sandal1

/ˈsand(ə)l /
noun
A light shoe with either an openwork upper or straps attaching the sole to the foot: they were dressed in open-toed sandals...
  • Wear high-top hiking shoes or sneakers - never sandals, or your feet will suffer.
  • It features a sling-back strap, which not only secure the sandal to your foot, but also offers a lovely, sensible heel.
  • The only thing the head honcho enforces is that employees wear something on their feet - sneakers or sandals will do.

Derivatives

sandalled

(US sandaled) adjective ...
  • He tickles my leg under the table with his sandalled feet.
  • My sandalled feet curled on the soft mink carpet and I gaped at the walls and walls of clothes that circled the whole place.
  • But he'd already started to walk back along the overgrown path, angrily shaking his sandaled feet to dislodge the crawling ants.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek sandalion, diminutive of sandalon 'wooden shoe', probably of Asiatic origin; compare with Persian sandal.

Rhymes

sandal2

/ˈsand(ə)l /
noun
Short for sandalwood.The absence of legislation to stop illicit felling of sandalwood from the Marayur sandal forest and distillation of sandal oil has made sandal factories in the State active of late.
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