baby shoe
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi ʃu/
:
zapato de bebé
- After searching online, I finally found the perfect baby shoes to match her first outfit.
- tiny baby shoes
- little baby shoes
- white baby shoes
So Hemingway's six word novel for sale, baby shoes never worn.
- So Hemingway's six word novel for sale, baby shoes never worn.
- The next thing that you really do not need is newborn shoes or baby shoes in general for that matter.
- She has small feet unless I'm buying her like teeny tiny baby shoes that are mostly like soft on the bottom.
Examples
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Come get your baby shoes.
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Tiny little baby shoes, first words... walking.
Fiction book (2001) -
The next thing that you really do not need is newborn shoes or baby shoes in general for that matter.
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She has small feet unless I'm buying her like teeny tiny baby shoes that are mostly like soft on the bottom.
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I pray every day on my knees in my mother's guest room, kneeling by the old secretary with my brother's baby shoes on the top shelf.
Fiction book (1993) -
Blushing, she picks up the orange, the tennis ball, and the baby shoe and begins to juggle again.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the years of plunder, I pried up floorboards in the barn and found an old baby shoe and a bill for tires.
Academic text (1991) -
Pink, peach, yellow, white—a million baby shoes shifting in the wind.
Fiction book (1990) -
She bought a pair of soft, flexible baby shoes for her infant to wear around the house.
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The store displayed various baby shoes that are designed to support a baby's growing feet.
Synonyms
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4.3
A soft knitted shoe for a baby that covers the foot and sometimes the lower leg
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small shoe for an infant' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baby' (infant) with 'shoe' (foot covering); this is a straightforward noun–noun compound that follows normal English composition patterns. Cross-linguistically many languages form equivalent compounds or phrases for infant footwear, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Baby shoe comes from the simple image of a small shoe made for a baby, soft and flexible to protect tiny feet, and people often keep a first baby shoe as a small memory. So today baby shoe means a small, soft shoe made for a baby.