- plural of shoe.
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
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
I hadna pu'd a flower but ane, When by there came a gallant hende, Wi' high-coll'd hose and laigh-coll'd shoon, And he seem'd to be sum kingis son.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Throw by that walloping surtout— On wi' my auld red jacket— Haul aff thae gripless Wellingtons For yon shoon wi' mony a tacket.
From Poems on Golf by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society
O hastily he gat him up, Staid neither for hose nor shoon, And he's doen him to the stable door Wi' the clear light o' the moon.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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