geta
n.,
pl. ge$ta or ge4tas 5Jpn < ?6 in Japan, a high wooden clog fastened to the foot by a thong between the first and second toes

When I was in the Philippines, many girls wore very elaborately decorated clogs, which they would never
have called by a Japanese word. It used to amuse me to seem them take them off, walk barefoot around
a puddle they could not avoid, stamp their feet, and put the clogs back on.