OriginFrom Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe + -en.
- archaic, dialectal, form-of, pluralplural of shoe
“If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
Sitt thee downe and putt them on
But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean”
“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 of shoon, the soles whereof we”
“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 golden shoon Wrought w”
Formsshoen(alternative, obsolete) · shoone(alternative, obsolete)