moccasin
noun/ˈmɒkəsɪn/
/ˈmɑːkəsɪn/
- a flat shoe that is made from soft leather and has large stitches around the front, of a type originally worn by some native North Americans see also water moccasinTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Virginia Algonquian mockasin. The word is also found in other American Indian languages.
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