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Wooden shoes worn in the Low countries.

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Usage examples (12)
  • For hundreds of years, wooden shoes, called klompen, were worn by most Dutch people for very practical purposes.
  • "klompen," said he, in good Dutch, and klompen, or klomps, they are to this day.
  • Spellers were tripped up on words such as croquette, mahi-mahi, klompen and cadenza.
  • You can check out all of the flowers and the klompen dancers with their wooden shoes.
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