Meaning & use
Shoon
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An archaic or dialectal plural form of "shoe."
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The old ballad described the traveler's worn silver shoon.
In dialect poetry, characters often walk in leather shoon rather than modern shoes.
A note on using this word
This irregular plural survived in English dialect and poetry long after "shoes" became standard, appearing famously in Walter de la Mare's poem "Silver."
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