sabot
sabot — noun
1. a traditional European shoe shaped from a solid block of wood, worn mainly by fa
a traditional European shoe shaped from a solid block of wood, worn mainly by farm workers and labourers in past centuries
The old farmer wore wooden sabots every day while working in the muddy vegetable field.
countable noun; collocation: wooden sabots
The museum guide showed the children a pair of painted sabots from nineteenth-century France.
collocation: a pair of painted sabots
Aunt Rosa kept her grandmother's sabots on the fireplace shelf as a family treasure.
The dancers' sabots made a loud clacking sound on the stone floor.
用法筆記
Countable noun. Often used in the plural form (sabots) when referring to a pair of wooden shoes. The word sabotage is historically related to sabots — workers were said to throw their sabots into machines to stop production.
常見錯誤
2. a shoe with a narrow band of material that fastens across the top of the foot, o
a shoe with a narrow band of material that fastens across the top of the foot, or the band itself; a style of open shoe or sandal with a cross-strap
The shop assistant recommended brown leather sabots with a wide strap for summer walking.
collocation: leather sabots / wide strap
Wei-ling bought black sabots to wear with her linen dress to the garden party.
The shoemaker replaced the worn sabot strap on the customer's favourite sandals.
Priya fastened the wide leather strap across her instep and walked onto the sandy beach.
- Mary Jane shoe
A more common term for a shoe with a single strap across the instep, especially in American English
- strap sandal
A broader category that includes any sandal fastened by straps; sabot usually implies a single wide band
用法筆記
In modern fashion contexts, sabot (sense 2) is less common than synonyms such as 'Mary Jane shoe' or 'strap sandal'. The sabot strap specifically refers to a single broad band across the instep, distinguishing it from sandals with multiple thin straps.