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noun - a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
A woman’s shoe worn in the 16th and 17th centuries that featured a very high, thick sole.
noun - a covering for the foot
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| A woman's shoe worn in the 16th and 17th centuries that featured a very high, thick sole. |
| a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole |
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A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect the shoes and dress from mud and street soil. * Chopines were popularly worn in Venice by both courtesans and patrician women from ca. 14001700. Besides their practical uses, the height of the chopine became a symbolic reference to the cultural and social standing of the wearer; the higher the chopine, the higher the status of the wearer. High chopines allowed a woman to tower over others. During the Renaissance, chopines became an article of women's fashion and were made increasingly taller; some extant examples are over 20 inches (50 cm) high. In 1430, the height of chopines was limited by Venetian law to three inches, but this regulation was widely ignored. Shakespeare joked about the extreme height of the chopines in style in his day by using the word altitude (Hamlet 2.2, the prince greets one of the visiting pl |