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FLATS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("flats" is a kind of...):
footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
I picture myself with my books shut up, still listening to the doleful performance of Mr. Mell, and listening through it to what used to be at home, and to the blowing of the wind on Yarmouth flats, and feeling very sad and solitary.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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