Handshoe

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A glove or mitten. nonstandard

    "I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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glove

Example

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"I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compound of hand + shoe, likely as a calque of Dutch handschoen (“glove, mitten”) or German Handschuh (“glove”).

Etymology 2

See handshoe.

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