Meaning & use
Plimsoles
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Light canvas shoes with flat rubber soles, worn especially for sports; a variant spelling of 'plimsolls'.
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The children changed into plimsoles for gym class.
He wore a pair of old plimsoles for running errands around the garden.
A note on using this word
The more standard spelling is 'plimsolls', named after the Plimsoll line on ships because the shoe's rubber sole resembled the painted waterline mark.
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sneakerstrainers
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