He would wear iron shoes in order to avoid encountering any women - they could hear him approach and disperse.
The princess learns how he had been carried off, has three pairs of iron shoes made for herself, and sets out.
It was an old tin steamer trunk, its corners reinforced with iron shoes.
Picking up each hoof in turn he tied the heavy sacks over their iron shoes.
Except that you'd better take off those iron shoes; you don't need them yet.
Here and there a clear hoof print, showing the form of an iron shoe, indicated that very clearly.
His iron shoes, suited to paved roads, did not provide a very sure grip on the round, wet rocks.
The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual.
The next unpleasant business was putting on the iron shoes; that too was very hard at first.
The evil queen is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes at the wedding.