bemoccasined
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
be- + moccasined
Adjective[edit]
bemoccasined (not comparable)
- wearing a moccasin
- 1926, In the Maine Woods, page 17:
- One has a very brotherly feeling toward all the bemoccasined and pack-laden individuals he sees getting on at Boston and next morning by the time breakfast is over, he has conversed with half the people in the car.
- 1948, DeCost Smith, Martyrs of the Oblong and Little Nine, Caxton Printers, Ltd., page 194:
- The picturesque, bemoccasined woodrangers, usually spoiling for a fight, were now strangely apathetic.
- 1960, New Mexico Historical Review, volumes 35-35, page 50:
- and Solomon's new world was a small child's-eye-view of wagon wheels, plodding oxen, bemoccasined Indian traders and a Territory in transition.