Zoccoli

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Zoccoli (Italian, singular: Zoccolo "wooden shoe", "wooden sandal") are wooden shoes that are made from a piece of wood and are held on the foot. In France they are called sabots , in English cloggs, Dutch clogs and Italian zoccoli . Sometimes also so called wood sole shoes, the shoe sole from a piece of wood is made with and the band or belt made of leather or other material on the foot are attached, be it the toes or in addition to the ankle ; these can be sandals without heels or sandals with flat to high heels.

Zoccoli are not to be confused with Chopine , Kothurn , Nalin , Kabkab , Geta , Okobo ( Pokkuri-Geta ) or Trippen .

In Switzerland, wooden sandals are commonly called zoccoli .

Trivia

• There is an asteroid (Neptune Trojan) with this name: 18661 Zoccoli ( list of asteroids, numbers 18501 to 19000 ).
• Zoccoli also means hooves in Italian, from hoof: zoccolo.

Web links

1. http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Zoccolo
2. https://dict.leo.org/itde/index_de.html#/search=Huf&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on&pos=0

literature

• Linda O'Keeffe: Shoes. Könemann Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8331-1098-8 .
• Paul Weber: Shoes. Three millennia in pictures. AT Verlag, Aarau 1980, ISBN 3-85502-064-7 .