: a woman's shoe of the 16th and 17th centuries with a very high sole designed to increase stature and protect the feet from mud and dirt
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The sandals of next summer are somewhere between a chopine and a flatform, a shoe that is equally provocative and walkable.
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Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2020
There were towering chopines from the Italian Renaissance and three-inch-long women’s shoes from China.
—Bonnie Wertheim, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
The pedestal-like chopine of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries transformed the upper-class European woman into a towering figure.
—Ariana Marsh, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2017
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Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2020
There were towering chopines from the Italian Renaissance and three-inch-long women’s shoes from China.
—Bonnie Wertheim, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
The pedestal-like chopine of the late 15th to the early 17th centuries transformed the upper-class European woman into a towering figure.
—Ariana Marsh, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2017
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“Chopine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chopine. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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