foot-binding
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At least Keziah wasn’t tip-toeing around to mimic bound feet in a play set a millennium before foot-binding became a thing in China, as in perhaps the most absurd example of cultural appropriation I’ve witnessed.
From The Guardian • May 4, 2018
Our feet and spines will unknot, and high heels will fade from consciousness along with foot-binding and rib removal to shrink your waist.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
Shortly after taking power in 1949, the party outlawed prostitution, child brides and foot-binding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2015
Instead of twiggy 1960s doll-like languor, our models more often portray a kind of wolfish, predatory and materialistic vision, with $2,000 handbags and platform heels that make Chinese foot-binding look enlightened.
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2013
Neither was any attempt made in the opening years of the conquest to interfere with foot-binding by Chinese women; but in 1664 an edict was issued forbidding the practice.
From The Civilization of China by Giles, Herbert Allen
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