- 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
There, I felt it with my toes again; see the benefit of wearing sandals, and not shoon.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
The stockings they are Gib my man's, They came first to my hand; And this is Gib my man's shoon; At my bed feet they stand.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
They pack'd up her silks and her satins, They pack'd up her hose and her shoon, And likewise her clothes in small bundles,55 And away with young Donald she's gane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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
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