Definitions
a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top
Word origin
From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant who created a system of marks and symbols for the waterline of ships. The shoe was possibly named because the line of its sole resembled the Plimsoll line of ship.
Used in a sentence
““Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.”
“While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Canvas gym shoe”8 letters
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