brodequin

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noun

A buskin or half-boot.

OriginFrench brodequin →
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Meanings

nounbrodequin (plural brodequins)

plural brodequins · alternative brodekin

  1. obsoleteA buskin or half-boot.
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    Then followed the young monarch and his chevaliers, dressed after the Roman fashion—the cuirass of gold, the robes of frosted silver, the brodequins wrought with gold and silver mixed; and the casques were of silver, with white plumes tipped with scarlet. All were masked; but the King was easily distinguished by his snowy charger, whose mane was fantastically knitted with scarlet ribands.

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 133

Origin

  1. Frenchbrodequin
  2. Englishbrodequin

From French brodequin.

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