seven-league boots
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of seven-league boots
1805–15; translation of French bottes de sept lieues in the fairy tales of C. Perrault, especially Le petit Poucet ( English Hop-o'-my-Thumb )
Example Sentences
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Then Salt came along with its seven-league boots and snapped up a little generation of us.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2013
Having played for England under-17s on Thursday, he came on for the second half to show strapping strength and balance in seven-league boots.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010
Characters in Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their verdict was of the kindly, noncommittal sort, as if they realized the unfairness of trying to fit a merely capable musician to the seven-league boots worn so easily by the giant Toscanini.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You can go twice as fast as we can on those seven-league boots of yours.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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