DCCa light shoe that is made of cloth and rope 〔用布和绳带制成的〕轻便鞋,帆布便鞋
Examples from the Corpus
espadrille• He was wearing a fadedblueshirt, an old pair of linentrousers and espadrilles.• But amid all the opulence Mrs Marcos held up a pair of innocuous blue espadrilles as her favourite pair.• Continue the canvas look with classicespadrilles which are equally at home on the beach or the street.• She was wearing Ray-Bans, a pale blue sunsuit, and white anklesocks under ivory-colored high-heeled espadrilles.• He wore old jeans, espadrilles and a torn blue T-shirt through which spilled a lot of black chest-hair.• When I left the path, thornspenetrated my espadrilles.• My espadrillestoed together on the carpet.• Plimsolls or espadrilles are useful too.
Originespadrille
(1800-1900)FrenchLatinspartum name of a type of grass from which it was first made