traditional clog
- noun
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zueco tradicional
- The dancers performed in brightly painted traditional clogs during the folk festival.
Examples
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Farmers in rural Dutch villages still wear traditional clogs when working in muddy fields.
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On her trip to Amsterdam, she bought a pair of traditional clogs as a souvenir.
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He wore a pair of traditional clogs to the festival.
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Many tourists buy traditional clogs as souvenirs.
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Farmers in rural Dutch villages still wear traditional clogs when working in muddy fields.
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On her trip to Amsterdam, she bought a pair of traditional clogs as a souvenir.
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The dancers performed in brightly painted traditional clogs during the folk festival.
Synonyms
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5.3
A shoe made from one piece of wood worn in some European countries
How Traditional
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'traditional' (customary, passed down) + 'clog' (a wooden-soled shoe), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a customary type of clog. This straightforward adjective+noun composition follows normal compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so it is accessible to a B1 learner even if they don't know the specific cultural detail about the Netherlands.
Etymology
The noun traditional clog comes from village and farm life in the Netherlands: a clog was a 'wooden shoe' made from a single piece of wood that kept farmers' feet dry and safe in mud and water. That's why the term means the old, wooden footwear people wore in that region.