"shoe tree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shoe trees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} shoe tree (plural shoe trees)
  1. A device approximating the shape of a foot that is placed inside a shoe when it is being stored to preserve its shape and extend the life of the shoe. Categories (topical): Footwear Synonyms: shoetree Hypernyms: tree (english: structurally) Translations (device to preserve the shape of a shoe): bigorniu [masculine] (Asturian), калъп (kalǎp) [masculine] (Bulgarian), lepolesti (Finnish), lesti (Finnish), embauchoir [masculine] (French), forma [feminine] (Galician), Schuhspanner [masculine] (German), sámfa (Hungarian), brógchrann [masculine] (Irish), tendiscarpe [masculine] (Italian), skoblokk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), prawidło [neuter] (Polish), растя́жка для о́буви (rastjážka dlja óbuvi) [feminine] (Russian), horma [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "embauchoir"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "forma"
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
      "word": "sámfa"
    },
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      ],
      "word": "brógchrann"
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
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      ],
      "word": "prawidło"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastjážka dlja óbuvi",
      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "растя́жка для о́буви"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "device to preserve the shape of a shoe",
      "tags": [
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