foot-binding
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At least Keziah wasn’t tip-toeing around to mimic bound feet in a play set a millennium before foot-binding became a thing in China, as in perhaps the most absurd example of cultural appropriation I’ve witnessed.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2018
Our feet and spines will unknot, and high heels will fade from consciousness along with foot-binding and rib removal to shrink your waist.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
Instead of twiggy 1960s doll-like languor, our models more often portray a kind of wolfish, predatory and materialistic vision, with $2,000 handbags and platform heels that make Chinese foot-binding look enlightened.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2013
As one mandarin warned in the late 19th century, foot-binding made China "a laughingstock in the eyes of foreigners."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2010
The Chinese custom of foot-binding is a curious instance of self-mutilation.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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