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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(fashion, anthropology) The study of footwear, especially historical footwear..
Such is the gist of the laborious Benedict's researches in Calceology, which are valuable in so far as they are based on passages from writers contemporary, or nearly so, with the shoes and shoe-customs which they describe.
Having introduced myself, and having learned that Lyubomir's name was Lyubomir and that his shoes and his good self were Bulgarian (as a science, calceology is still in its infancy), I ascertained that he was a twenty-four-year-old film student from Sofia.
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Calceology means (fashion, anthropology) The study of footwear, especially historical footwear..
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Such is the gist of the laborious Benedict's researches in Calceology, which are valuable in so far as they are based on passages from writers contemporary, or nearly so, with the shoes and shoe-customs which they describe.
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