† sashoonn.
Obsolete exc. U.S.
A stuffed leather pad formerly worn inside the leg of a boot; also, see quot. 1875.
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1687–8 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1849) 2 113 June 29th, paid Henry Sharpe of Cuckfield for a pair of bootes and sashoones, 13s.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 13/2 A Sashune or Shashune, is stuffed or quilted Leather, to be bound about the small of the Leg.
1692 Scarronides ii. 34 His gouty Hocks, with fleshy Sashoons, Like Horses lookt that has the Fashions.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. ix. 37 One nam'd his [wench], my Slipper, and she him, my Foot. Another my Boot, she my Shasoon.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sashoons, Leather put under a Boot about the Small of the Leg.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Sashoon, a soft leathern pad placed inside a shoe to ease the pressure on a tender spot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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