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单词 brodequin
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brodequinn.

Forms: Also Middle English brodkyne, 1500s brotekin, brotikin, 1600s brodkin, 1700s brodekin.
Etymology: < French brodequin (15th cent. in Littré), (for which Du Guez c1532 has brousequin ) related to Flemish brosekin , broseken (Kilian) buskin, also to Italian borzacchino , Spanish borceguí , formerly also boszeguí buskin: the inter-relations of which are as yet uncertain. The modern Dutch broos , formerly brôze buskin, is according to Franck probably shortened < broseken . See buskin n.
A high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs; a buskin. Also attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > reaching to below knee
bootingc1300
sabatinec1460
brodequin1481
buskin1503
bottine?a1513
Russian boot1781
half-boot1787
Wellington1816
blucher1833
squaw boot1942
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1844) 345 My Lord paid for a peyer of brodkynes..xd.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 3143 I can make schone, brotekins and buittis.
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 111 A pair of brotikins on his feet to the great of his legs.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xv. 103 How wouldest thou defend thy self? With great buskinades or brodkin blowes..provided thursts were forbidden.
1718 L. Echard Hist. Eng. (new ed.) III. i. ii. 177/2 Instead of Shooes and Stockins, a Pair of Buskins or Brodekins.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxiv. 229 From their bonnets to their brodequins.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. x. 159 Trim Parisian brodequins showed her..feet, to complete advantage.
1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô vii. 184 He soiled his purple brodequins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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