Clogs: Difference between revisions

{{a|work|[[File:Clogs.jpg|thumb|Some clogs, yesterday]]}}{{d|Clogs|/klɒgz/|n| (Fr: ''Sabots''}} <br>

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.