foot-binding

[ foot-bahyn-ding ]

noun

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

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To show how foot-binding survivors walk, Farrell created this video.
China’s Last Foot-Binding Survivors | Nina Strochlic | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The lower picture shows the terrible deformity produced by foot-binding.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up | Clarence Poe
They fight the barbarous customs of foot binding and the killing and selling of girl babies.
Camps and Trails in China | Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews
Such a reform should not be so difficult as to rid the women of China of their particular form of foot-binding.
How to Live | Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk
foot-binding is practised by rich and poor in all parts of the country, but is not universal.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 | Various

And they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot-binding or its after-effects.
The Child in the Midst | Mary Schauffler Labaree

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