chopine

Often, the fabric of the chopine matched the dress or the shoe, but not always.

Although the smaller size is the same as the volume of a Chopine of wine, the bottles are usually significantly different in shape.

By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.

There are a great many cognates of the word chopine (chapiney, choppins, etc.).

The naggin bottle is typically short and flat, suitable for placing in a pocket, whereas the Chopine typically has a round cross-section.

During the Qing dynasty, aristocrat Manchu women wore a form of platform shoe similar to 16th century Venetian chopine.

A variant on the patten popular in Venice was the chopine - a platform-soled mule that raised the wearer sometimes as high as two feet off the ground.

The word could also be used as a term for a wooden soled shoe, that is a chopine or clog, as opposed to an overshoe, until at least the nineteenth century.

He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: --Is it your view, then, that she was not faithful to the poet?

Money is now paid to Jaquet Leprestre for ten pints and a chopine of wine given to DAME JEHANNE DES ARMOISES.

Besides their practical uses, the height of the chopine became a symbolic reference to the cultural and social standing of the wearer; the higher the chopine, the higher the status of the wearer.

When Hamlet, referring to the platform shoe of his day, said to the Player-Queen, "Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine," he was undoubtedly responding to the psychologically, as well as visually, elevating effect.