Sandal
['sænd(ə)l] or ['sændl]
Definition
(noun.) a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Same as Sendal.
(n.) Sandalwood.
(n.) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.
(n.) A kind of slipper.
(n.) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
Typist: Pansy
Definition
n. a kind of shoe consisting of a sole bound to the foot by straps: a loose slipper: a half-boot of white kid: a strap for fastening a slipper: an india-rubber shoe.—adj. San′dalled wearing sandals: fastened with such.
n. a long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
Editor: Rochelle
Examples
- No--except sandal-shoes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was no dust, no moisture, to soil the hem of her stainless garment, or to damp her slender sandal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A red ribbon and sandal-shoes, she said to herself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No, I have other things of mamma's--her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of--plenty of things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This probably meant a sandal, leather strapped to the foot, though the Jews wore shoes as well, and both shoes and sandals were worn in Greece and Rome. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Until recently shoes were not in general use at home, but sandals without any leather fastenings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This probably meant a sandal, leather strapped to the foot, though the Jews wore shoes as well, and both shoes and sandals were worn in Greece and Rome. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Lancelot