Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cinderella

CINDERELLA (little cinder girl), the heroine of a popular fairy tale. She is the drudge of the house, dirty with housework, while her elder sisters go to fine balls. At length a fairy enables her to go to the prince's ball; the prince falls in love with her, and she is discovered by means of a glass slipper which she drops, and which will fit no foot but her own. The glass slipper is a strange mistranslation of pantoufle en vair (a fur slipper), not en verre.