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Geta   Listen
noun
geta  n.  A type of Japanese footwear usually with wooden soles, held to the foot by a thong that passes between the first two toes.
Synonyms: clog, patten, sabot.






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"Geta" Quotes from Famous Books



... fell sick, he visited the temple of Bellona near Bootham Bar, and paid his devotions unmolested, let us hope, by any prevision of the misbehavior of his son Caracalla (whose baths I had long ago visited at Rome) in killing his other son Geta. Everywhere I could be an early Christian, in company with Constantine, in whom the instinct of political Christianity must have begun to stir as soon as he was chosen emperor. But I dare say I heard the ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells

... Mysteries, and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,' will be found a rather clever and once very popular poem, founded on 'Amphitryon,' the 'Geta' of Vital of Blois. Amphitryon in this is a student of Greek learning, and the awkwardness of Alcmena's situation, after Jupiter's visit is got over, by her assuring her confiding husband that she thinks the whole affair must ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley



Words linked to "Geta" :   patten, clog, sabot, footgear, footwear



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