Meanings
- uncountableanthropologyThe study of footwear, especially historical footwear.
Such is the gist of the laborious Benedict's researches in Calceology, which are valuable in so far as they are based on passages from writers contemporary, or nearly so, with the shoes and shoe-customs which they describe.
1888 September, “Calceolaria Quædam”, in The Antiquary, volume 18, page 961 more example
Having introduced myself, and having learned that Lyubomir's name was Lyubomir and that his shoes and his good self were Bulgarian (as a science, calceology is still in its infancy), I ascertained that he was a twenty-four-year-old film student from Sofia.
1999, Philippe Meyer, A Parisian's Paris: Chronicle for the Millennium, page 159
Origin
A classical compound (modern coinage), with components derived from Latin calcei ("shoes") + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, "-logy, branch of study, to speak").
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