tsarouchi

plural tsarouchis

1. Traditional Greek leather shoe with pompom, now worn only by the evzonoi.

   His trousers, patched like his coat, dropped over a pair of scarlet charouhias, leather shoes with upturned toes decorated with a large black-and-white pompon.

   1956, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, Penguin, page 47

   1 more example

   Here the struggle of Greece is fought with half a tsarouchi (the distinctive pompommed clogs worn by mountain fighters), rags, a loaf of bread, a handful of corn, and with home-made guns, axes, and poles."

   1977, Linda Suny Myrsiades, “Greek Resistance Theatre in World War II”, in The Drama Review: TDR, volume 21, number 1, page 102