FromMiddle Englishschon,shon,shone,schone,shoon,schoon,schoone, fromOld Englishsċōn(“shoes”,dative plural) andOld Englishsċōna(“shoes'”,genitive plural), equivalent toshoe +-en.
shoon
- (archaic or dialectal)plural ofshoe
- 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey inRemains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:
- If ever thou gave either hosen orshun
Sitt thee downe and putt them on
But if hosen norshoon thou never gave nean
The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane
1883,Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood turns Beggar”, inThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […],→OCLC, part sixth,page210:At this sight merry Robin laughed till the tears stood on his cheeks, for, as though to make the sight still more droll, the rider wore great clogs upon his feet instead ofshoon, the soles whereof were made of wood half a palm’s breadth in thickness, and studded all over with great nails.
1901, Anna Hempstead Branch,The heart of the road:Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some goldenshoon Wrought with fine work all about,[…]
1913, Paulist Fathers,Catholic world:It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leathershoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.
1914–5,J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, edited byVerlyn Flieger,The Story of Kullervo, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published2016,→ISBN,page25:O Terenye maid of Samyan / Little daughter of the forests / Clad in soft and beauteous garments / With thy golden hair so lovely / And thyshoon of scarlet leather, / When the cherry will not lead them / Be their neatherd and their shepherd.
1991,David Weber,Mutineers’ Moon, Riverdale, N.Y.:Baen Books, published1998,→ISBN,pages240–241:“Yet knowing that, thou wouldst still ha’ seen me in thyshoon?” / “I didn’t intend to give my ‘shoon’ to anyone,” he said testily, “and I wouldn’t’ve been around to see it if it happened! But, yes, if it had to be someone, I picked you.”
shoon
- Alternative form ofshoone
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[1], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page135
