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It refers to a soft leather shoe or slipper, often with a decorative fringe, worn originally by Native American Indians. Example: She slipped on her comfortable moccasins and headed out for a walk in the woods.
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moccasin
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A kind of shoe with low heels, with the top sides stitched upwards.
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Moccasin (genus Agkistrodon), either of two venomous aquatic New World snakes of the viper family (Viperidae): the water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) or the Mexican moccasin (A. bilineatus).
Athlete's foot can be categorized into four main types: interdigital (toe webs), moccasin, vesicular (blisters), and ulcerative.
The water moccasin inhabits marshy lowlands of the southeastern United States.
See also bushmaster, copperhead, fer-de-lance, moccasin, rattlesnake.
Such words as hominy, moccasin, pone, tapioca and succotash remain everyday Americanisms.
Nerodia is often mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) because they have a similar shape and coloration.
You can certainly learn to spell "moccasin" while driving into Maine, and there is often little else to do except steer and avoid death.
In 2008, in a cave in Armenia, scientists discovered what is thought to be the world's oldest leather shoe, a fifty-five-hundred-year-old cowhide moccasin — a woman's size 7 — with laces and straw padding.
He had on a plaid bathrobe, moccasin slippers, a baseball cap, and owlish eyeglasses.
When I looked at it more closely, I could see that the skin of the leg had been stitched together, like a moccasin.
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In moccasin-type infections, the area involved is limited to the soles and lateral portions of the feet.
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