† cork-shoen.
Obsolete.
A shoe of cork; one furnished with a cork sole or heel.
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1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. Tis as good to goe in cut fingerd pumps as corke shoes, if one wears Cornish diamonds on his toes.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D2 For maides that weres Corke shooes, may step awrie.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4 Thy voice squeakes like a dry cork shoe.
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 77 Swimming-girdles and cork-shoes..were not then in fashion.
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