seven-league boots

English

Tom Thumb stealing a pair of seven-league boots

Noun

1. (folklore, fairy tale) A pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride.

Usage notes

• The singular form is rare.

Translations

boots enabling great stride

• Catalan: botes de set llegües f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 七里靴 (qīlǐ xuē)

• Czech: sedmimílové boty f pl
• Dutch: zevenmijlslaarzen f pl
• Estonian: seitsmepenikoormasaapad pl
• Finnish: seitsemän peninkulman saappaat pl
• French: bottes de sept lieues (fr) f pl
• German: Siebenmeilenstiefel (de) m pl
• Hungarian: hétmérföldes csizma sg
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• Icelandic: sjömílnaskór m pl
• Italian: stivali delle sette leghe m pl
• Kazakh: жүрдек етік (jürdek etık)
• Polish: siedmiomilowe buty m pl
• Portuguese: botas de sete léguas f pl
• Russian: сапоги́-скорохо́ды (ru) m pl (sapogí-skoroxódy), семими́льные сапоги́ m pl (semimílʹnyje sapogí)
• Spanish: botas de siete leguas f pl
• Swedish: sjumilastövlar c pl
• Ukrainian: чо́боти-скорохо́ди m pl (čóboty-skoroxódy), семими́льні чо́боти m pl (semymýlʹni čóboty)

Further reading

• seven-league boots on Wikipedia.Wikipedia