pinson
/ˈpɪns(ə)n/(also pynson) Now historical
noun
A kind of thin shoe; a slipper or pump.
- Pinsons appear to have become obsolete soon after 1600 and no contemporary description of them is known, although there has been much subsequent conjecture. A. Way in Promp. Parv. (1865) (note) suggests ‘possibly, high and unsoled shoes of thin leather, worn with pattens’..
Origin
Late Middle English. Origin uncertain; perhaps related in some way to pinsons.