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pampootie local Irish.|pæmˈpuːtɪ|
Also pampooter, pampootee.
[Said in Folk-Lore Journal (1884) II. 261, to have been introduced some two hundred or more years ago by an East Indian ship-captain who settled on the South Isle of Aran: possibly a popular corruption of some form of papoosh, papouche, or Sp. babucha; cf. papouches, pampooties.]
A kind of slipper or sandal of undressed cow-skin sewn together and tied across the instep. Used in the Isles of Aran off the west coast of Ireland.
1881Harper's Mag. 510 Sandals, called pampootees, made of untanned cowhide, universally worn by the inhabitants of the Arran islands. 1884Folk-Lore Jrnl. II. 261 The Aranites and inhabitants of some of the other Galway islands wear pampooters. 1892E. Lawless Grania I. ii. 13 Twisting her small pampootie-clad feet round a rope. |