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MOCCASIN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans

Synonyms:

mocassin; moccasin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("moccasin" is a kind of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The money he had received for his furs and mittens and moccasins began to go.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The moccasins were in soggy shreds.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And when the last cup of flour was gone and the last rind of bacon, she was able to rise to the occasion, and of moccasins and the softer-tanned bits of leather in the outfit to make a grub-stake substitute that somehow held a man's soul in his body and enabled him to stagger on.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And thou shalt hunt meat for me and Old Kinoos, and I shall cook thy food, and sew thee warm parkas and strong, and make thee moccasins after the way of my people, which is a better way than thy people's way.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)