chaussures
- plural of chaussure.
Example Sentences
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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
"She is eighteen, or at least seventeen—old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures."
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
The Empress even can't wear her usual shoes, and all the women have left off coquettish little shoes that match their dresses, and taken to these rather primitive chaussures.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
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
