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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.
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.
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
High-heel shoes worn in an overt sexual context. Fuck-me shoes, alternatively fuck-me boots or fuck-me pumps (occasionally extended to knock-me-down-and-fuck-me shoes), is a slang term for women's high-heeled shoes that exaggerate a sexual image. The term can be applied to any women's shoes that are worn with the intention of arousing others.
'Breaking in' your shoes in reality doesn't mean letting your shoes get used to the shape of your foot -- in fact it's quite the opposite: Your feet are going to be the ones working to adjust size ...
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
Ballet flats or ballet pumps are a style of shoe.The appearance is inspired by women's ballet shoes, with a very thin heel or the appearance of no heel at all.The style sometimes features a ribbon-like binding around the low tops of the slipper and may have a slight gathering at the top-front of the vamp or a small, decorative string tie.