DCHP-3

Indian boot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of sturdy moccasin having uppers reaching well up the lower leg; shoe pack (def. 1).

See: Canadian shoe,shoepack(def. 1)

Quotations

1770
The Indians . . . brought me a pair of stockings; the legs of which are made of deer-skin, with the wool on the inside: they are intended to wear with Indian boots.
1852
Neither have these Indian boots, but merely shoes or mocassins, with soft tops that wrap round the ankle, and are unconnected with the leggins or trowsers.
1921
His high Indian boots were caked with mud to the knee. . . .