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单词 larrigan
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larrigann.

/ˈlarɪɡən/
Forms: Also 1800s larigan, larrigin.
Etymology: Of unknown origin.
North American.
A long boot made of undressed leather.
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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
1886 Engineering News XVI. 99/1 And the ordinary foot-gear is a pair of cow-hide moccasins (called shoe-packs or larrigans).
1889 Amer. Notes & Queries 3 308 A larigan, or larrigin, in Maine and New Brunswick, is a kind of boot or moccasin of yellow leather, having a long leg reaching above the knee. It is worn by lumbermen in the deep snows of winter.
1915 Outing Oct. 27/2 A ‘shoe-pac’ or ‘larrigan’ is a beef-hide moccasin with eight to ten-inch top, and with or without a light, flexible sole.
1922 Short Stories (U.S.) Feb. 128/2 Over six feet in his larrigans.
1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 180 I was much hampered by a pair of still hard-soled larrigans which I had donned.
1961 Sat. Night (Toronto) 23 Dec. 18/1 After breakfast that day I rode to school..wearing a pair of cowhide larrigans greasy with linseed oil.
1968 E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies ii. 25 Little Tim was six foot seven..who could yet sew a larrigan together with the waxed end neater than a woman could hem~stitch.

Derivatives

ˈlarriganed adj. wearing larrigans.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing boots > types of
caligate1562
buskined1588
well booted1608
jackbooted1763
high-lowed1839
ankle-jacked1842
beetle-crushing1871
larriganed1904
gumbooted1930
1904 C. G. D. Roberts Watchers of Trails 287 Then, turning on his larriganed heels, he strode up the trail.
1922 Short Stories Feb. 129/1 [The dogs] clipped fangs at Cherriman's larriganed legs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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