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Definition of plimsoll in English: plimsoll(also plimsole) noun ˈplɪms(ə)l British A light rubber-soled canvas shoe, worn especially for sports. 〈英〉（尤指运动时穿的）橡胶底帆布鞋 Example sentencesExamples - And, comfortable as they may look, O'Neill also urges parents to campaign against any school policy that requires children to wear plimsolls inside at all times.
- Naturally we were equally impressed by the bravery of Commander Crabb, who took them on equipped only with a pair of plimsolls and some swimming goggles.
- Athletes must complete a 200-yard circuit, gingerly stepping over obstacles in their path such as fast-food containers, cans of lager and noxious-smelling plimsolls.
- Today, she's wearing plimsolls that skip across her kitchen's wooden floor with quick little trit-trot movements.
- So they opted for a tailored calf-length coat - chocolate brown - with a blue pinstripe suit and white plimsolls.
- Fortunately, the caves are warm here so an old shirt, a pair of shorts and a pair of green farmer's plimsolls are pretty well adequate.
- Indeed, it's hard to believe that the young woman sprawled on the floor in her jeans and pink plimsolls, fiddling with her earrings, is going to let any of it go to her head.
- There, on the wall, are a gorgeous pair of 1960s plimsolls - white, with little red bows and tiny red stripes around the base.
- When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just plimsolls and fluorescent ‘clackers’ on our wheels and hardly any brakes.
- She is already wealthier than the 50 school friends she once ran with, in plimsolls and skirts.
Synonyms training shoe, running shoe, sports shoe, tennis shoe
OriginLate 19th century: probably from the resemblance of the side of the sole to a Plimsoll line. Use of plimsoll for a light rubber-soled canvas shoe, is probably because the strip covering the join between sole and upper resembles a Plimsoll line on the side of the ship, marking the safe limit for loading. This got its name from Samuel Plimsoll (1824–98), the English politician who fought to introduce the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, which ended the practice of sending overloaded and heavily insured old ships to sea, from which the owners profited if they sank.
Definition of plimsoll in US English: plimsoll(also plimsole) noun British A light rubber-soled canvas shoe, worn especially for sports. 〈英〉（尤指运动时穿的）橡胶底帆布鞋 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, it's hard to believe that the young woman sprawled on the floor in her jeans and pink plimsolls, fiddling with her earrings, is going to let any of it go to her head.
- Naturally we were equally impressed by the bravery of Commander Crabb, who took them on equipped only with a pair of plimsolls and some swimming goggles.
- Fortunately, the caves are warm here so an old shirt, a pair of shorts and a pair of green farmer's plimsolls are pretty well adequate.
- She is already wealthier than the 50 school friends she once ran with, in plimsolls and skirts.
- Athletes must complete a 200-yard circuit, gingerly stepping over obstacles in their path such as fast-food containers, cans of lager and noxious-smelling plimsolls.
- There, on the wall, are a gorgeous pair of 1960s plimsolls - white, with little red bows and tiny red stripes around the base.
- So they opted for a tailored calf-length coat - chocolate brown - with a blue pinstripe suit and white plimsolls.
- And, comfortable as they may look, O'Neill also urges parents to campaign against any school policy that requires children to wear plimsolls inside at all times.
- Today, she's wearing plimsolls that skip across her kitchen's wooden floor with quick little trit-trot movements.
- When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just plimsolls and fluorescent ‘clackers’ on our wheels and hardly any brakes.
Synonyms training shoe, running shoe, sports shoe, tennis shoe
OriginLate 19th century: probably from the resemblance of the side of the sole to a Plimsoll line. |