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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a boot or shoe of tanned leather, as opposed to the soft leather moccasin of the Indians and coureurs-de-bois.
See: botte sauvage
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1889
Home-made trousers of the home-woven gray woolen étoffe du pays tucked into the wrinkled legs of the long moccasins tied below the knee, which, in contradiction from town-made "bottes françaises," are known as "bottes sauvages."