Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Chopine

(2 syl.), or Chopin. A high-heeled shoe. The Venetian ladies used to wear “high-heeled shoes like stilts.” Hamlet says of the actress, “Your lady-ship is nearer to heaven, than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine” (act ii. s. 2). (Spanish, chapin, a high cork shoe.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Choreu'tæ
Chops of the Channel
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