Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a shoe; boat-shaped; slipper-shaped; cymbiform. See
Paramecium .
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Examples
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Daisy Fellowes, long considered the best-dressed woman of her generation, was known for her fashion daring, and confidently wore audacious items like Elsa Schiaparelli's surrealist shoe-shaped hat with a shocking pink heel.
A Salute to Women in Uniform Annette Tapert 2011
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In my first story, the hero has occasion to peer through “a dark shoe-shaped patch of nothingness”.
Archive 2009-12-01 Lou Anders 2009
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992
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The situation overlooked the entire shoe-shaped district, heretofore described.
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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