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kickshoe (plural kickshoes)

  1. Obsolete form of kickshaw.
    • 1644, Milton, Of Education[1]:
      Nor shall we then need the Monsieurs of Paris to take our hopeful youth into their slight and prodigal custodies, and send them over back again transformed into mimicks, apes and kicshoes.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 2, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, [], Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2:

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