bottekinn.
/ˈbɒtkɪn/, /ˈbɒtᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˈbɑtkən/, /ˈbɑdəkən/ rare.
A small boot. Cf. bootikin n.
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1882 Standard 19 Sept. 5/1 We live in a time of tight-lacing, high heels, and bottekins.
1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 241 He urgently wanted her to place her foot (in its blunt-toed, gray bottekin stitched with colored silk) on top of his head.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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