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Word of the Day 05/24/18 Pantofle

Pantofle (noun)
pantofle or pan·tof·fle [pan-tuh-fuh l, pan-tof-uh l, -toh-fuh l, -too-]


noun
1. a slipper.
2. a cork-soled patten covering the forepart of the foot, worn in the 16th century.

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Origin: 1485–95; earlier pantufle < Middle French pantoufle < Old Italian pantofola < Medieval Greek pantóphellos cork shoe, literally, all-cork. See panto-, phellogen

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