espadrille
noun/ˈespədrɪl/
/ˈespədrɪl/
- a light shoe made of strong cloth with a sole made of ropeTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French, from Provençal espardi(l)hos, from espart ‘esparto’, from Latin spartum, from Greek sparton ‘rope’.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
espadrille