foot-binding
裹脚,缠足,裹脚布,缠脚
Definitions
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- : the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
Examples
Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.
In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.
Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
Binding the resolution of my case to progress in the nuclear negotiations is profoundly unjust.
That ruling is binding law in the United States, no matter what the former vice president says.
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.
But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.