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Japanese wooden clogs for outdoor wear. (plural)

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Usage examples (7)
  • I saw a lot of women wearing traditional kimonos and getas wooden sandals.
  • After matches, Togo would scream at Baba in the dressing room, and hit him alongside the head with these Japanese clogs called getas.
  • A really young girl-fifteen, sixteen, seventeen-would scream as if a godzilla egg had hatched in her bathwater, and run right out of her getas in her haste to reach the...
  • Girls in their twenties, on the other hand, would hurl their getas at him, would hurl books, flutes, teapots, iron lanterns, inkwells, and stones; hurl them with such...
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