babouchen.
/bəˈbuːʃ/, U.S. /bəˈbuʃ/ A North African or Middle Eastern slipper, typically heelless and made of soft leather. Cf. papoosh n.
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Turkish slipper1865
1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 90 They have Shooes, or rather Slippers, without Heel's, call'd Baboushes [Fr. Babouches].
1735 J. Morgan tr. P. de la Motte Voy. Barbary 116 His Leggs bare and crossed, his Feet out of his Babouches, or Slippers, seated on a fine Persian Carpet.
1754 tr. A. Le Camus Abdeker i. x. 35 The Foot, bound up in a narrow Babouche from Infancy, becomes so pretty that it excites Desires in a Man, though he be not in the least amorous.
1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess I. iii. 45 Babouches, or slippers, covered with gold embroidery, were on my feet.
1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Oct. 389/1 Closely muffled, they divest themselves of their burnouses and babouches in an ante-room.
1909 R. Hichens Bella Donna vii. 70 He looked down to the red carpet on which his bare feet were set in their red babouches.
1963 D. Kurzman Subversion of Innocents ii. xi. 275 Cobblers fashion babouches from wrinkled leather brought by camel caravan via the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, Pakistan.
2006 New Yorker 16 Oct. 110/3 He wears floppy babouches at home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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