platform shoe

English

Noun

platform shoe (plural platform shoes)

1. A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels to make the wearer appear much taller than they actually are.

   Hyponym: chopine

Synonyms

• platforms (plural only)

Translations

type of footwear

• Dutch:plateauzool
• French: chopine (fr) f, chaussure à plate-forme f
• German: Plateauschuh (de) m
• Portuguese: salto plataforma m
• Spanish: zapato de plataforma m
• Swedish: platåsko (sv)
• Vietnamese: giày bánh mì

Further reading

• platform shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia