canines
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An upper-class woman would have been proud to hobble on her “flowerpot-sole shoes”—embroidered slippers on tall pedestals—and Guo pays homage to them in vertiginous chopines that are lashed to the ankles with satin ribbons.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
Both sets of women wore the sky-high chopines, or platform shoes, in which they were expected to walk and even dance.
From Newsweek • Aug. 6, 2012
In Italy, prominent women wore 20-inch-tall chopines, while in France and England, the fad was for long pointy-toed shoes called poulaines.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012
One wedged shoe made in 1938 is a kind of psychedelic homage to the raised Venetian chopines of the 17th century; it could easily have been worn by Elton John in concert in 1978.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tall chopines that Hamlet mentions were really very high-soled slippers, into which the richly-embroidered shoes were placed to protect them when the ladies walked abroad.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
