wooden shoe

noun

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Origin of wooden shoe

First recorded in 1600–10

Words nearby wooden shoe

woodcutter, wooded, wooden, wooden horse, wooden indian, wooden shoe, wooden spoon, wooden tongue, wooden-headed, woodenhead, woodentop
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Example sentences from the Web for wooden shoe

  • They were in the forest, as yesterday, in the shed of some wooden-shoe maker.

    Madame Bovary|Gustave Flaubert