soulier
See also: Soulier
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French soler, from Late Latin subtelāris.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsoulier m (plural souliers)
- (dated outside North America, footwear) shoe, boot (protective covering for the foot)
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis[1], archived from the original on 27 May 2019:
- Les habits, qui pèsent sur mes mollets, sont plats, tièdes d’un côté seulement. Les lacets de mes souliers n’ont plus de ferrets.
- The clothes, which weigh on my calves, are flat, warm on only one side. The laces of my shoes no longer have aglets.
Usage notes
edit- More common in Canada and Louisiana than chaussure.
Further reading
edit- “soulier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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