Definitions for chopines

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chopines cho·pine

Spelling: [choh-peen, chop-in]

IPA: /tʃoʊˈpin, ˈtʃɒp ɪn/

Chopines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in chopines (cehinops).

Definitions for chopines

noun

1. a shoe having a thick sole, usually of cork, suggesting a short stilt, worn especially by women in 18th-century Europe after its introduction from Turkey.

Origin of chopines

1570-80; Spanish chapín, equivalent to chap(a) (Middle French chape chape) + -in -in¹

Examples for chopines

One of the greatest follies ever introduced was the chopine, a sort of stilt which increased the height of the wearer.

By-'r-lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.56 You are welcome.