A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference

In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves] Reference

He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves] Reference

"You will have a chopine of ale, Baldy," said he to the old wreck; "sometimes it's all the difference between hell-fire and content, and -- for God's sake buy the bairn a pair of boots!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

Ladiship is growne by the altitude of a chopine higher than.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto] Reference

By ’r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] Reference

By ’r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw-you last, by the altitude of a chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II. Scene II] Reference

By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet] Reference

By-'r - lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven, than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators] Reference

Crafted in nappa leather, they were as uncompromisingly tight-fitting as their chopine-style heels were high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The chopine platform shoe is a columnar shape that "rises the wearer up as a single unit," according to Semmelhack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

A surviving Spanish chopine mule with tooled leather over cork heels dates to before 1540 as one of the earliest platforms, Semmelhack said.    From Wordnik.com.  [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference

By the 17th century the chopine was replaced by the high heel after explorers discovered new routes between Europe and the East and Venice became less important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Un soir étant allé voir le Gouverneur, in 1767, à peine m'eût-il demandé des nouvelles de ma senté qu'il alla me chercher une bouteille de verre de chopine, mesure de Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

He called for the regular "ordinary" and a "chopine" of wine, and then, after gulping down his soup, bolted great pieces of beef, pausing every now and then to wipe his mouth on the back of his sleeve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference

A deputy interior secretaire gone dispatched to the area and the Open Response Team cost activated. officials fear a large oil spill terminated result from the sinking of the practicing chopine about 50 miles off the Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

It gets a bonus gold star, too, for referencing and rendering the obscure chopine, a towering platform shoe worn by courtesans in Europe in the 15th century, in a more wearable form necessary elevation for all those maxi lengths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"Spanish chopines tend to be excessively decorated, very visible, very flashy, much more equivalent to a pair of Manolo Blahniks today than the Italian chopine which was completely concealed and not as decorated," said Semmelhack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

A deputy interior escritoire went hit to the area and the Federal Response Team followed activated. officials fear a solid oil spill could result from the sinking of the oil production chopine nearly 50 miles off the Louisiana Glide.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

A deputy interior secretaire gone dispatched to the area and the Open Response Team cost activated. officials fear a large oil spill terminated result from the sinking of the practicing chopine about 50 miles off the Louisiana Seashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

A chopine being a shoe with a heel of inordinate height.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

“chopine” of wine, and then, after gulping down his soup, bolted great pieces of beef, pausing every now and then to wipe his mouth on the back of his sleeve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference

Macoumè baill y toua chopine farine-manioc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

"Nous n'irons plus au cabaret, boire chopine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Songs of French Canada] Reference

Mais ell's s'en vont au cabaret, boire chopine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Songs of French Canada] Reference

“chopine” of wine in a guttural voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference

CIOPPINI, chopine, lady's high shoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference