chopine

See also: chopiné

English edit

reconstruction of a Venetian chopine

Borrowed from Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín, from chapa (“plate”).

chopine (plural chopines)

A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
(historical, footwear) A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 263, column 2, lines 364-365:
  Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]

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chopine f (plural chopines)

(France, obsolete) a French pre-metric measure of capacity equal to half a pinte that was equivalent to 0.476 liters. Under the monarchy the measure varied from region to region, with the Parisian chopine being equivalent to 0.465 liters. 1 pinte ("quart") = 2 chopines ("pints") = 4 demiards ("half-pints")
(France) a French metric chopine (or metric "pint") equal to 0.250 liters
(Canada) a French Canadian term for an imperial pint, equal to one eighth of an Imperial gallon, 20 Imperial ounces, or 0.568 liters
(France) an amount of wine equivalent to 0.25 liters

chopine f (plural chopines)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chopine