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handshoes

handshoes is the plural of handshoe.

Meaning of handshoe

Noun

handshoe (plural handshoes)

  1. (nonstandard) A glove or mitten.
    • I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]1801, John Locke, Works - Volume 9 - Page 9

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Proper noun capitalized: Handshoes

Handshoes

  1. (plural) plural of Handshoe

Questions about handshoes

What is handshoes the plural of?
Handshoes is the plural of handshoe.
What part of speech is handshoes?
Handshoes is a proper noun.

Words near handshoes in the dictionary

  1. handshape
  2. handshapes
  3. handsheet
  4. handsheets
  5. handshoe
  6. handshoes
  7. handshook
  8. handsier
  9. handsies
  10. handsiest
  11. handsignalman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handshoes (page history and authors); Handshoes (page history and authors); handshoe (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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