moccasin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++moc·ca·sin /ˈmɒkəsɪn $ ˈmɑː-/ noun [countable]
DCCa flat comfortable shoe made of soft leather 莫卡辛鞋,软帮平底鞋 →5 see picture at 见图 shoe1
Examples from the Corpus
moccasin• Black snakes and moccasins every few hundred yards.• These are moccasins made of caribou.• All their shoes assembled by the front door, there must have been two dozen pairs, sandals, boots, moccasins.• Her boots were ankle-high moccasins.• Bergman did observe that the young man was shod with brand new moccasins of ox hide.• Huge inventories of cultural traits, such as pot and basket designs or types of moccasins, were built up.• Sitting down, he kicked off his painted moccasins, one red and one green.• She wore loose black pyjamas, moccasins and a black brassiere.Origin moccasin (1600-1700) Virginia Algonquian mockasinmoc·ca·sin nounChineseSyllable
a leather Corpus flat of soft comfortable shoe made
moccasin
moc‧ca‧sin /ˈmɒkəsɪn $ ˈmɑː-/
noun [countable]
a flat comfortable shoe made of soft leather
moc‧ca‧sin /ˈmɒkəsɪn $ ˈmɑː-/
noun [countable] Date: 1600-1700
Language: Virginia Algonquian
Origin: mockasin
Language: Virginia Algonquian
Origin: mockasin

a flat comfortable shoe made of soft leather
