espadrille
pronunciation
How to pronounce espadrille in British English:
UK [ˈespədrɪl]
How to pronounce espadrille in American English:
US [ˈɛspəˌdrɪl]
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- Noun:
- a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part
Word Origin
- espadrille (n.)
- shoe with soles of hemp-rope (originally worn in the Pyrenees), 1892, from French espadrille (17c.), from Provençal espardillo, from Latin spartum "Spanish broom, Spanish grass," a plant of Iberia and North Africa that produced a fiber used to make mats, nets, ropes, etc., from Greek sparton "rope made of spartos" ("Spanish broom"), from PIE *spr-to-, from root *sper- (2) "to turn, twist" (see Sparta). For initial e- see e-.