chopine

• “A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.”

  Monsieur Lecoq

• “In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine.”

  The Huffington Post: Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves

• “Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.”

  The Huffington Post: Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves

• “Take for example a chopine 3 cups/750 ml of good milk. . .”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: —”

  Ulysses

• “You will have a chopine of ale, Baldy," said he to the old wreck; "sometimes it's all the difference between hell-fire and content, and -- for God's sake buy the bairn a pair of boots!”

  Doom Castle

• “By ’r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.”

  Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• “He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low:”

  Ulysses

• “By ’r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw-you last, by the altitude of a chopine.”

  Act II. Scene II

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