Meaning & use
wooden shoe
A shoe carved from a single block of wood, traditionally worn as everyday footwear in parts of Europe.
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The museum displayed a pair of wooden shoes once worn by Dutch farmers in the fields.
Tourists bought tiny painted wooden shoes as souvenirs from the shop near the windmill.
A note on using this word
In the Netherlands this footwear is usually called a 'klomp'; 'wooden shoe' is the common English name for the same object.
Words with a similar meaning
clog
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