brodequin

English

Alternative forms

• brodekin

Etymology

From French brodequin.

Noun

brodequin (plural brodequins)

1. (obsolete) A buskin or half-boot.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 133:

     Then followed the young monarch and his chevaliers, dressed after the Roman fashion—the cuirass of gold, the robes of frosted silver, the brodequins wrought with gold and silver mixed; and the casques were of silver, with white plumes tipped with scarlet. All were masked; but the King was easily distinguished by his snowy charger, whose mane was fantastically knitted with scarlet ribands.

French

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔd.kɛ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

brodequin m (plural brodequins)

1. (historical) buskin, half-boot
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, “II. Lux facta est”, in Les Misérables, 3e partie. Marius; Livre sixième. La conjonction de deux étoiles, Belgium: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.:

     [S]on brodequin de soie dessinait la petitesse de son pied.

     [H]er silken shoe outlined the smallness of her foot.

2. (historical, theater) buskin
3. work boot

Further reading

• “brodequin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.