finneskon.
/ˈfɪn(ᵻ)skəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfɪnzkoʊ/, /ˈfɪnəˌskoʊ/ A boot made of birch-tanned reindeer skin with the hair left on the outside.
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1890 tr. Nansen's 1st Crossing Greenland I. 47 The two Lapps had two pair of ‘finnesko’ each.
1911 R. F. Scott Jrnl. 20 Jan. in Last Exped. (1913) iv. 132 We have..served out two pairs of finnesko (fur boots) to each traveller.
1928 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 10/6 Leather boots to replace the finsko which the men were wearing.
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