English Dictionary

moccasin

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɒkəsɪn/

名詞

A traditional Native North American shoe, usually without a heel or sole, made of a piece of deerskin or other soft leather turned up at the edges which are either stitched together at the top of the shoe, or sewn to a vamp (a piece covering the top of the foot).

日本語の意味

北アメリカ先住民の伝統的な靴。かかとや底がなく、鹿革などの柔らかい革を用いて、足部の上を覆う部分に合わせて縫い合わせたもの。

She slipped her feet into a soft deerskin moccasin before stepping onto the wooden floor.

彼女は木の床に足を踏み出す前に、柔らかい鹿革の伝統的な靴に足を滑り込ませた。

意味（1）

A traditional Native North American shoe, usually without a heel or sole, made of a piece of deerskin or other soft leather turned up at the edges which are either stitched together at the top of the shoe, or sewn to a vamp (a piece covering the top of the foot).

The term Chippewa, which is generaly applied to this nation, is derived from that of O̓ˊche̓pe̓ˊwa̓g, which they restrict to the Indians who reside near Fond du Lac, it signifies plaited shoes, from the fashion among those Indians of puckering their moccassins.

意味（2）

A modern shoe with either a low or no heel resembling a traditional Native American moccasin in that the leather forming the sides of the shoe is stitched at the top.

Walking moccasin of gray chrome tanned leather. Waterproof. Flexible elk sole.

意味（3）

A light beige colour, like that of a moccasin.

moccasin:

意味（4）

Any of several North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon, particularly the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) and the cottonmouth or water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus).

The moccaſin ſnake is a large and horrid ſerpent to all appearance, and there are very terrifying ſtories related of him by the inhabitants of the Southern ſtates, where they greatly abound, particularly in Eaſt Florida: that their bite is always incurable, the fleſh for a conſiderable ſpace about the wound rotting to the bone, which then becomes carious, and a general mortification enſues, which infallibly deſtroys the patient; […]

moccasins （ plural ）