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  2. Sandal - Wikipedia

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    In Greek, the names referred to particular styles of women's sandals rather than being the general word for the category of footwear. Similarly, in Latin, the name was also used for slippers, the more common term for Roman sandals being solea, whence English sole. The English words sand and sandalwood are both false cognates.

  3. Discalced - Wikipedia

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    The custom of going unshod was introduced into the West by Saint Francis of Assisi for men and by Saint Clare of Assisi for women. The word is derived from the Latin discalceātus, from dis ("apart", "away") and calceātus ("shod"), from calceāre ("to provide with shoes"), from calceus ("shoe"), from calx ("heel"). [1]

  4. Flip-flops - Wikipedia

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    This is hypothesized to have come from the Telugu word ceppu (చెప్పు), from Proto-Dravidian *keruppu, [9] [10] meaning "sandal". In some parts of Latin America, flip-flops are called chanclas. [11] Throughout the world, they are also known by a variety of other names, including slippers in the Bahamas, Hawai‘i, Jamaica and ...

  5. Caligae - Wikipedia

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    It was laced up the center of the foot and onto the top of the ankle. The Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville believed that the name "caliga" derived from the Latin callus ("hard leather"), or else from the fact that the boot was laced or tied on (ligere). Strapwork styles varied from maker to maker and region to region.

  6. Calceus - Wikipedia

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    The Latin word calceus derives from calx ("heel") and the usually Grecian suffix -eus, meaning essentially "heely" or "thing for the heel". It is frequently taken loosely as the general Latin word for any laced and covered shoe [1] distinguished from sandals, slippers, and boots. Theodor Mommsen even considered it to sometimes intend sandals as ...

  7. What 'breaking in' your shoes is actually doing to your feet

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    Getty Everyone has a Cinderella's-evil-step-sister-moment where you try and squeeze your not-so-dainty feet into a dainty pair of glass slippers (or super cute stilettos, whatever).