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An Italian bread named after a style of Footwear
Posted 4 July 08
Ciabatta is an Italian white bread made with wheat flour and yeast. In Italian, ciabatta (chuh-BAH-tah) means “slipper,” leading some people to call the bread “slipper bread.” The name is a reference to the shape, which does sort of resemble a slipper.
Ciabatta Full Ciabatta cut
Stiletto heel Origin?
The long thin Stiletto heel found on some boots and shoes (mainly women) and particularly associated with the image of the femme fatale, is named after the Stiletto Dagger
Dictionary meaning of Stiletto – n., pl. -tos or -toes.
1. a. A small dagger with a slender, tapering blade.
b. Something shaped like such a dagger.
2. A small, sharp-pointed instrument used for making eyelet holes in needlework.
[Italian, diminutive of stilo, dagger, from Latin stilus, stylus, spike.]
Description
A stiletto is a short dagger, with a narrow, hollow grind blade with a triangular cross-section. This dagger is designed as a stabbing weapon rather than for cutting, since it doesn’t have a sharp edge, and because its narrow shape allows it to penetrate deeply in a point.
The stiletto began to gain fame during the Renaissance when it was popular as a tool against heavily armoured knights. The thin blade could easily pass through most chainmail, or find its way through tiny gaps in a knight’s armour.
Posted 30 June 08
There are 400 million different ways of lacing a shoe with only seven pairs of eyelets -
Burkard Polster, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has come up with proof.
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21 June 2008 celebrated as National Flip Flop day
Flip-flops have become such an American summertime icon that ther2e’s now a day dedicated to the footwear: National Flip Flop Day, held on, appropriately, the first day of summer, June 21
