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[ foot-bahyn-ding ] / ˈfʊtˌbaɪn dɪŋ /
noun(formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible. Words nearby foot-bindingfoot-and-mouth disease, footbag, football, footballer, footbath, foot-binding, footboard, footboy, foot brake, footbridge, foot-candle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for foot-bindingTo show how foot-binding survivors walk, Farrell created this video. China’s Last Foot-Binding Survivors|Nina Strochlic|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST Foot-binding is practised by rich and poor in all parts of the country, but is not universal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2|Various Such a reform should not be so difficult as to rid the women of China of their particular form of foot-binding. How to Live|Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk The lower picture shows the terrible deformity produced by foot-binding. Where Half The World Is Waking Up|Clarence Poe
And they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot-binding or its after-effects. The Child in the Midst|Mary Schauffler Labaree Our best existent examples are in the Chinese foot-binding custom, and ours of waist-binding. The home|Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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