Definitions for foot-binding

foot-binding foot-bind·ing

Spelling: [foo t-bahyn-ding]
IPA: /ˈfʊtˌbaɪn dɪŋ/

Foot-Binding is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in foot-binding (-bdfgiinnoot).

Definitions for foot-binding

noun

  1. (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.

Examples for foot-binding

It will put an end to the cruelty and miseries of foot-binding.

To show how foot-binding survivors walk, Farrell created this video.

Within the last few weeks another edict has gone forth, directed against the practice of foot-binding.

The foot-binding process in China is but an extreme expression of this old domestic concept, the veiling process another.

In every home that professes to any respectability, foot-binding is an absolutely essential thing for the girls in it.

During her medical course Mary became more strongly impressed than ever before with the evils of foot-binding.

And they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot-binding or its after-effects.

But when her father came home he had a long and serious talk with his wife about foot-binding, and off came the bandages again.

foot-binding is one of the most senseless and cruel customs it is possible to imagine.

The lower picture shows the terrible deformity produced by foot-binding.

Word Value for foot-binding
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7

Words with friends

7

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