Meanings
- not comparableWearing moccasins.
The Bishop stood watching the flowing, supple movements of their arms and shoulders, the sure rhythm of their tiny moccasined feet, no larger than cottonwood leaves, as without a word of instruction they followed the irregular and strangely-accented music.
1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 4, page 2331 more example
To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.
1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3
Origin
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