单词 | shoepack |
释义 | shoepackn. North American. Originally, and still locally: a moccasin with an extra sole. More recently: a commercially manufactured oiled leather boot, usually with a rubber sole. Cf. pac n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > skin or hide > moccasin > types of shoepack1755 opanka1778 pampootie1846 pac1875 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > made from specific material huseau1464 russeting?1620 wax boot1676 fair-top boot1809 Albert boot1840 Albert1847 shoepack1882 finnesko1890 yeti boot1973 1755 in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 99 It would be a good thing to have Shoe-packs or Moccosons for the Scouts. 1824 J. Hall Sketches (1835) I. 75 Gentlemen dressed in shoepacks, mocassons, leather breeches [etc.]. 1852 J. Reynolds Pioneer Hist. Illinois 52 The men out of doors wore a coarser and stronger article made out of thicker leather, which the Americans call ‘shoe packs’. 1853 S. Strickland 27 Years in Canada West II. 286 Shoe-packs, a species of mocassin peculiar to the Lower Province, cow-hide boots, and a bonnet rouge for the head, complete the costume of the Canadian lumber~man. 1882 J. M. LeMoine Picturesque Quebec 201 He came pounding along Notre Dame street, in Montreal, in his red shirt and tan-colored shupac boots, all dripping wet. 1897 J. L. Allen Choir Invisible iii. 26 The small, sensitive feet,..covered with coarse shoe-packs tied with leather thongs. 1903 S. E. White Forest x. 120 He brought to light..oil-tanned shoepacs, with and without the flexible sole. 1940 R. Marshall Arctic Village 101 It is only in the fall and the spring that the snow is soggy, and in those seasons shoepacks with rubber bottoms and leather uppers replace the moccasins. 1977 New Yorker 20 June 69/2 After the cast comes off, I can walk with a shoepac and a cane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1755 |
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