chaussure
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chaussures
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Jos Sedley, who admired his own legs prodigiously, and always wore this ornamental chaussure, was extremely pleased at this remark, though he drew his legs under his chair as it was made.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
This was fully evidenced by his threadbare coat and chafed chaussure, as he trudged afoot along the dusty road of the Romagna.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
The shoes are brought by a priest to the foot of the patriarchal throne, when a canon removes the profane, out-of-door chaussure, and places the sacred shoes on the patriarch's feet.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
Nevertheless, neither Bombastes nor Dalgetty could have clung more obstinately to this favorite chaussure than did I to mine.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
The chaussure consisted of gaiter-bootees of drab lasting-cloth, tipped with patent leather, and fastened over the front with a silk lace.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
Another annoying misappropriation is the noun "fashion" which, in French, becomes an adjective, as in "J'adore tes chaussures - tres fashion."
From BBC ● May 24, 2013
Luns explained that his scarlet chaussures were actually a pair of knitted slippers.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have nothing to say against the prevailing fashion of ladies' chaussures worn—even down to the clog and pattern, every thing is elegant, every thing is proportionably useful.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
There is Mademoiselle Joliejambe;—would one suppose that the pink slippers, which terminate those silk-shod mollets, could be dangerous chaussures?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
"She is eighteen, or at least seventeen—old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures."
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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