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shoepack N. Amer.|ˈʃuːpæk|
Also shoepac, shupac.
[ad. Delaware Jargon seppock, síppack shoes, f. Unami Delaware čipahko moccasins, infl. by shoe n.]
Orig., and still locally, a moccasin with an extra sole; more recently, a commercially manufactured oiled leather boot, usually with a rubber sole. Cf. pac.
1755in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 99 It would be a good thing to have Shoe-packs or Moccosons for the Scouts. 1824J. Hall Sketches (1835) I. 75 Gentlemen dressed in shoepacks, mocassons, leather breeches [etc.]. 1853S. Strickland Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West II. 286 Shoe-packs, a species of mocassin peculiar to the Lower Province, cow-hide boots, and a bonnet rouge for the head, complete the costume of the Canadian lumber⁓man. 1882J. M. LeMoine Picturesque Quebec 201 He came pounding along Notre Dame street, in Montreal, in his red shirt and tan-colored shupac boots, all dripping wet. 1903S. E. White Forest x. 120 He brought to light..oil-tanned shoepacs, with and without the flexible sole. 1940R. Marshall Arctic Village 101 It is only in the fall and the spring that the snow is soggy, and in those seasons shoepacks with rubber bottoms and leather uppers replace the moccasins. 1977New Yorker 20 June 69/2 After the cast comes off, I can walk with a shoepac and a cane. |