chopine

IPA: tʃˈɑpaɪn

A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
(historical, footwear) A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Examples of "chopine" in Sentences

Take for example a chopine 3 cups/750 ml of good milk. . .
By r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine.
He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low:
He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: —
Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.
A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?
"You will have a chopine of ale, Baldy," said he to the old wreck; "sometimes it's all the difference between hell-fire and content, and -- for God's sake buy the bairn a pair of boots!"
Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.