chopine
/tʃəʊˈpiːn/
chopine noun: a bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
Noun
chopine (plural chopines)
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
- A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
Forms of chopine
| plural | chopines |
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Origin of chopine
Borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -ine. Doublet of chopin.
Words that rhyme with chopine
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
- lien
Questions about chopine
- What does chopine mean?
- Chopine means a bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
- What part of speech is chopine?
- Chopine is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chopine?
- Chopine is pronounced /tʃəʊˈpiːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chopine?
- The plural of chopine is chopines.
Words near chopine in the dictionary
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