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calceate

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Adj — Wearing shoes, especially used of religious orders that do not go barefoot.

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From Latin calceātus, the participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) and -ō (a verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) and -eus (“-y”, an adjective-forming suffix). It is equivalent to Latin calceus + -ate (an adjective-forming suffix).

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