{
  "id": "shoes.clothing",
  "term": "shoes",
  "sense": "clothing",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "shoes",
  "domain": "clothing",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Items made of material with a structure to cover a foot.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "stuff.material",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "cover.object",
      "foot.body-part",
      "items.object",
      "make.verb",
      "material.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "Material and arrangement interact through the act of making to form a cover for a foot.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "foot covering",
      "wearable structure",
      "protective enclosure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Nike Air Force 1s, made of leather and foam, protect wearers' feet during city walking. [shoes]",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1923 British Mount Everest expedition used nailed leather boots to shield climbers' feet from ice and cold. [shoes]",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "Zori sandals, crafted from rice straw in 8th-century Japan, covered feet in humid rice fields. [shoes]",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "items.object",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "shoe",
    "shoes"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to align record with correct definition; adjusted interaction to reflect actual emergence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shoes.clothing"
}