soft shoes
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2.8
- noun
- /sɔft ʃuz/
:
zapatos suaves
Examples
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Stiff shoes are not as painful on tiny edges, but soft shoes can be almost as good or even better sometimes.
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So even on like really technical roots or bowlers with tiny footholds, I still prefer my soft shoes just because I'm able to.
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On stage, the baby swans, Beginners' Class, troop out in their soft bottoms and soft shoes, the random shoreline of our Swan Lake.
Fiction book (1990) -
The dancers wore soft shoes to enhance their movements on the stage.
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After practicing for hours, she decided to buy a new pair of soft shoes for better comfort.
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It's important to wear soft shoes indoors to avoid damaging the wooden floor.
Synonyms
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2.7
A shoe made for dancing that helps you move smoothly and gives support to your foot
How Soft
136
1.0
1
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'lightweight, flexible shoes' is directly derivable from combining 'soft' (yielding, not hard) with 'shoes' (footwear): the phrase simply describes shoes that are soft in feel or construction. This adjective + noun composition is a commonplace, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Soft shoes comes from the world of dance. Dancers wore thin, soft shoes so their feet could bend and make quiet steps, and that image explains why the term means light, flexible shoes for 'dancing' or for use 'indoors'.