chopine

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tʃəʊˈpiːn/

Noun

chopine (plural chopines)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 liters of fluid, 1/3 the volume of a standard bottle
2. A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries

Quotations

• 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2 lines 364-365

  By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven

  than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine.

• 1922 : Ulysses by James Joyce, chapter 9

  He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine…

Anagrams

• phocine

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French

Noun

chopine f (plural chopines)

1. a type of women's clog or overshoe; a chopine
2. (historical, Canada) imperial pint
3. an amount of wine equivalent to an imperial pint

Verb

chopine

1. first-person singular present indicative of chopiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of chopiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chopiner
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of chopiner
5. second-person singular imperative of chopiner