Flats
[flæts]
Definition
(noun.) footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel).
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Examples
- Burnside had stretched a boom across the Holston River to catch scows and flats as they floated down. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But after a little while I seemed to have the whole flats to myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or bills, are often found there; one place is called the Danes' well, another the Battle flats. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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