shoon

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Definition of shoon

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural)plural of shoe
    “If ever thou gave either hosen or shun Sitt thee downe and putt them on But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean”
    “At this sight merry Robin laughed till the tears stood on his cheeks, for, as though to make the sight still more droll, the rider wore great clogs upon his feet instead of shoon, the soles whereof were made of wood half a palm’s breadth in thickness, and studded all over with great nails.”
    “Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]”
    “It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.”
    “O Terenye maid of Samyan / Little daughter of the forests / Clad in soft and beauteous garments / With thy golden hair so lovely / And thy shoon of scarlet leather, / When the cherry will not lead them / Be their neatherd and their shepherd.”

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Etymology

From Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe + -en.

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