shoon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, however, I hung my sword, dusted the hair-powder from frill and ruffle, buckled shoon and knees, and shook out the long soft lace over my cuffs.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
One after another my hunting-shirt, vest, leggings, shoon, flew from me.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
It is not denied that this ballad has suffered, like others, by corruption and interpolations, and it is not, therefore, maintained that hats and cork-heeld shoon are of the 13th century.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
He was a thorn in the flesh to everybody he came across; he was like grit in the porridge, like a fly in the eye, like a stone in the shoon.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by Rouse, W.H.D.
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