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Glass slipper
I remember reading eons ago that glass was a mistranslation into English of Perrault's French word for fur, then learning that it wasn't (folklorists saying that glass slippers cropped up in earlier...
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The OED2 says "glass slipper [mistranslation of Fr. pantoufle en vair fur slipper, mistaken for verre glass], a slipper made of glass, esp. the one lost by Cinderella in the fairy-tale" and then gives...
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From the Wikipedia entry:The glass slipper is unique to Perrault's version; in other versions of the tale it may be made of other materials (in the version recorded by the Brothers Grimm, German:...
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