单词 | brodequin |
释义 | brodequinn. A high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs; a buskin. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1481 |
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