单词 | kamik |
释义 | kamikn. A long boot of sealskin worn by Eskimo peoples.See note at Eskimo n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of jockey-boot1683 top-boot1768 Cossack boot1805 wellington boot1815 Hessian boot1834 jockey1851 Napoleon1853 Napoleon boot1860 jockey-leg1862 larrigan1886 kamik1891 mukluk1898 cruiser1902 jockey-back1909 1891 L. Gibson Jrnl. 15 Aug. in R. E. Peary Northward over Great Ice (1898) I. iii. 109 The [Eskimo] woman made us a pair of Kamiks. 1900 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 297/1 Seal-skin kammiks, or top boots. 1910 R. E. Peary North Pole xiv. 128 The kamiks, or boots, of sealskin, soled with the heavier skin of the square-flipper seal. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 425/1 Untying the upper part of his kamik, or long boot. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity iii. 106 Their reindeer-skin kamiks had been worn into holes. 1945 D. Leechman Eskimo Summer 29 Nearly all of them [sc. Eskimo girls] were wearing sealskin kamiks, but one or two girls actually had on silk stockings and shoes with medium high heels. 1969 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 11/4 Eskimo wives stitching parkas and kamiks, or sealskin boots, which they trade at the local co-op store. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1891 |
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