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Definition of "chopine" [cho•pine]

  • A woman's shoe worn in the 16th and 17th centuries that featured a very high, thick sole. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "chopine" in a sentence
  • "A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?"
  • "Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice."
  • "In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine."