wooden shoe
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈwʊdən ʃu/
:
zueco
- She didn't even bring wooden shoes.
- wear wooden shoes
- a pair of wooden shoes
Examples
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In Belgium, people wear wooden shoes and March down the streets to frighten demons so the souls of their family members can visit them safely.
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- Did you bring back wooden shoes?
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Do you wear wooden shoes?
Academic text (1998) -
Once, when she was just a maiko, she fell clean off her wooden shoes.
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The common dress of Macon's citizens had degenerated to homespun cotton jeans and wooden shoes covered in cloth.
Academic text (2007) -
The bed was made up with my favorite of several old quilts made by Granny and her spinster sisters, a pattern of silhouetted Dutch girls in bonnets and wooden shoes.
Fiction book (1998) -
The dew clings only to the grass, which was mowed yesterday; it cannot wet Maria's feet; the wooden shoes have thick leather uppers, and the grass has been cut short.
Fiction book (1998) -
On December 6, Dutch Sinterklaas, I find my wooden shoes overflowing with gifts: a Dutch chocolate in the form of the first initial of my name, marzipan elves, books, and Spekulaas cookies in the shapes of windmills.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Holland, many tourists enjoy taking pictures wearing wooden shoes that are traditional to the region.
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The children laughed as they walked around in their colorful wooden shoes during the festival.
Synonyms
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4.9
A shoe with a thick wooden sole and sometimes an open heel
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9.9
A wooden shoe worn in parts of Europe
How Comfortable
- US
214
1.3
3
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shoe made of wood' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'wooden' (made of wood) with 'shoe' (a foot covering). This is a literal adjective + noun composition that follows standard semantics and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE even if the item is culturally specific.
Etymology
Wooden shoe comes from rural Europe, where people carved a block of wood into a sturdy shoe. The wooden material kept feet dry and safe in mud and cold, so the name simply means a shoe made from wood.