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A court shoe (British English) or pump (American English) is a shoe with a low-cut front, or vamp, with either a shoe buckle or a black bow as ostensible fastening. Deriving from the 17th- and 18th-century dress shoes with shoe buckles, the vamped pump shape emerged in the late 18th century.
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the word (of unknown origin) has variously denoted a pantofle, a low thin sole shoe, a formal men's shoe ( Reebok Pump ) a brand of athletic shoe with an internal inflation mechanism usu. women's high(ish) heeled shoe (UK similar: court shoe , q.v.)
Pump Action, a way a gun can be used. Ion pump (physics), or sputter ion pump, type of vacuum pump which operates by sputtering a metal getter; Laser pumping, the act of energy transfer from an external source into the gain medium of a laser; Skeletal-muscle pump, collection of skeletal muscles that aid the heart in the circulation of blood
A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, [1] or pump [2] (also known as a gym shoe [2] [1] or a sandshoe [1]), is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole. The shoe originated in the United Kingdom, [ citation needed ] there called a "sand shoe", acquiring the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s.
They are soft shoes, similar to ballet shoes. They are used by women in Irish dance , by men and women in Scottish country dance , and by men and women in Scottish highland dance . Ghillies are also sometimes known by a variety of other names that include: light shoes, pomps, pumps, and soft shoes.
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