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1. Robust wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one tries where possible to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne weavers — who called them ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — but not so much for wearing as throwing angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] to bugger them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Such mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress.
Stout wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one has always tried, where possible, to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs — in French, ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne hand-weavers, but not for wearing so much as for throwing angrily into the gears of those new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] with the goal of buggering them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, it didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress.


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Clogs
/klɒgz/ (n.)

Stout wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the courts of chancery, where one has always tried, where possible, to avoid clogs on the equity of redemption. Clogs — in French, les sabots — were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne hand-weavers, but not for wearing so much as for throwing angrily into the gears of those new-fangled automatic looms invented by Joseph Jacquard with the goal of buggering them up, in a rather Cnut-like effort to save their livelihoods. Mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “sabotage”. Long-term, it didn’t do les saboteurs much good. You can’t fight progress.

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