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chaussé'd en · ADJ

Etymology

From chaussé + -'d.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Shoed; wearing shoes.
   • So great was my rapture when the tempting, exquisitely chaussé'''-d feet and legs gradually glissé-ed towards me, that my silver bells rang forth a peal of applause 1860, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Autobiography of Frank; the Happiest Little Dog That Ever Lived, London: Darton and co., page 252:
   • At one of the intermediate ports, I forget which, several Peruvian ladies came on board, their diminutive feet chaussé’d with the prettiest little white satin boots imaginable, almost large enough for an English doll! 1851, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Travels in the United States, etc., During 1849 and 1850, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 371:
   • and how smartly dressed are the ladies, and how well chaussé'''-d! 1858, Sir Richard Levinge, A Day with the Brookside Harriers at Brighton, London: G. Routledge & co., page 40:
   • she turned to me and implored that I should ‘move heaven and earth,’ as she termed it—with her blue eyes thrown up to the chandelier, and her remarkably pretty and well-chaussé’d feet still beating time to the dance 1847, George Croly, Marston: or, the Soldier and Statesman, 2nd edition, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 301:

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Synonyms

chaussé