sandal

What it means

1. footwearA type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

In a sentence

And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries[…]

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

Where it comes from

1. Ancient Greekσανδάλιον
2. Latinsandalium
3. Old Frenchsandale
4. Middle Englishsandal“sandal”
5. Englishsandal

From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.