Etymology

buskin

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Today it means: A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height. Full definition →

Old French bousequin ← Middle Dutch broseken
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  1. Middle Dutch · derived frombroseken
  2. Old French · derived frombousequin
  3. English todaybuskin

Apparently from Old French bousequin, variant of brousequin (compare modern French brodequin), probably from Middle Dutch broseken, of unknown origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.