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# shoon

noun, old plural of shoe

«shoon» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Shoes, footwear for the feet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shoon/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say shoes. The sentences use the same sense.

### Examples

- At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shoon/#x1)
- At seven years’ end she got her iron shoon, clamb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the auld washerwife’s habitation. (The Blue Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shoon/#x2)

### Note

Today: shoes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shoon» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shoon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shoon» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/shoon.html) on Mova free.