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footbindings

footbindings is the plural of footbinding.

Meaning of footbinding

Noun

footbinding (countable and uncountable, plural footbindings)

  1. (historical) The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
    • More recent studies have shown that foot-binding was likely practiced not purely for the sake of marriage, but also to keep girls at home and engaged in handicrafts, such as spinning cotton, in order to contribute to their family’s income.2020 February 14, Antonia Malchik, “The Neglected Consequences of Foot-Binding”, in The Atlantic
  2. The material used to bind feet for this reason.

Questions about footbindings

What is footbindings the plural of?
Footbindings is the plural of footbinding.

Words near footbindings in the dictionary

  1. footbed
  2. footbeds
  3. footbinder
  4. footbinders
  5. footbinding
  6. footbindings
  7. footboard
  8. footboards
  9. footboat
  10. footboats
  11. footbone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footbindings (page history and authors); footbinding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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