chaussure French · revision 16727

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1172–75, Chrétien de Troyes, Chevalier de la Charrette (chaucëure)|origins=la calceus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʃo.syʁ/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [ʃo.syɾ]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''chaussure''' ''f'' (plural chaussures)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''chaucëure'', ''chauceüre'', Picard ''cauceüre''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|chausser|-ure]], an Old French formation.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) Littré compares a Latin type [[m|la-vul|*calceātūra]] and [[pcd|cauchure]].^(Littré 1873) The verb [[chausser]] continues [[la|calceō|t=to shoe]], from [[m|la|calceus|t=shoe, half-boot]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Chrétien de Troyes's ''Chevalier de la Charrette'' (1172–75) has ''chaucëure'' for anything that wraps the foot.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The broad sense “anything worn on the foot” is the old one and is now rare; the everyday sense is a shoe that does not rise above the ankle.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989) Cotgrave (1611) records the figurative ''trouver chaussure à son pied'' “to find what (or whom) suits one exactly”.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) In the 20th century the word came to name the shoe trade and industry (''industriels de la chaussure'', Jules Romains, 1938).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1172–75 – ''Chaucëure'', Chrétien de Troyes.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 12th century – ''Cauceüre'' in the ''Roman d'Alexandre''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1611 – Cotgrave records ''trouver chaussure à son pied''.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1938 – The shoe industry.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(rare)'' Anything worn to cover and protect the foot.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # A [[m|en|shoe]], ''chaussures montantes'', boots.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The shoe trade or industry: ''travailler dans la chaussure''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(familiar)'' ''Trouver chaussure à son pied'': to find exactly what or whom one needs.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[chaussette]]

+ * [[chausson]]

+ * [[chausser]]

+ * [[chausse]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}