Obs. A shoe of cork; one furnished with a cork sole or heel.
1591. Nashe, Introd. Sidney’s Astrophel. Tis as good to goe in cut fingerd pumps as corke shoes, if one wears Cornish diamonds on his toes.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.), 32. For maides that weres corke shooes may step awrie.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., V. Wks. 1856, I. 59. Thy voice squeakes like a dry cork shoe.
1687. T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 77. Swimming-girdles and cork-shoes … were not then in fashion.
