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Definition:pl. of Shoe. [Archaic]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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she hates me, and does not think me fit to wipe her shoon!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Al þus eld me for-dede...
Y ne mai no more of loue done,
Mi pilkoc pisseþ on mi schone...
The Kildare Poems: Elde (1325)
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How should I your true-love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and' staff
And his sandal shoon.
Shakespeare. Hamlet
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“Where’s your shoon, then?” Jamie asked accusingly. “You’ll no ha’ left them in the pasture again? Your mother will box your ears for ye if ye’ve lost them.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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My cockle hat and staff and hismy sandal shoon.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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