chopine
nounUK /tʃəʊˈpiːn/
Etymology Borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -ine. Doublet of chopin.
1
A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
2
Historical A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 263, column 2, lines 364-365:
- He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Related terms
- calcagnetti, pianella, zoccolo