I saw a lot of women wearing traditional kimonos and getas wooden sandals. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
After matches, Togo would scream at Baba in the dressing room, and hit him alongside the head with these Japanese clogs called getas. From Wordnik.com. [“Classy” Freddie Blassie] Reference
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 safety of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
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 bone-bruising force that it became his turn to scramble to safety. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
Also, we are still in the Europa League and will be trying to getas far as possible. '. From Wordnik.com. [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference
He looks at the windows of his own classroom; at the roofed side-door where each morning for four happy years he used to exchange his getas for soundless sandals of straw; at the lodge of the slumbering. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Instantly the witchcraft ends, like the wonder of some dream broken by a sound; the chanting ceases; the round dissolves in an outburst of happy laughter, and chatting, and softly-vowelled callings of flower-names which are names of girls, and farewell cries of 'Sayonara!' as dancers and spectators alike betake themselves homeward, with a great koro-koro of getas. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
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