word of the day: espadrille

The word of the day is espadrille:

1. a flat shoe with a cloth upper, a rope sole, and sometimes lacing that ties around the ankle.

2. a casual shoe resembling this, often with a wedge heel instead of a flat sole. (dictionary.com)

"Question marks help speculations chime away in the reader's mind, echoing your own.

Why couldn't she breeze into a room and kick off her espadrilles like other girls?"

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well-Tempered Sentence