foot-binding

[ foot-bahyn-ding ]

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noun

(formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.

To show how foot-binding survivors walk, Farrell created this video.

The lower picture shows the terrible deformity produced by foot-binding.

They fight the barbarous customs of foot binding and the killing and selling of girl babies.

Such a reform should not be so difficult as to rid the women of China of their particular form of foot-binding.

Foot-binding is practised by rich and poor in all parts of the country, but is not universal.

And they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot-binding or its after-effects.

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