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kamik

[< Esk.]

Eastern Arctic

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of knee-length waterproof boot made of sealskin.

See: Eskimo boot,moccasin(def. 3),mukluk(def. 1),skin boot

Quotations

1744

[Boots, Cam-meke]

1861

Puto and Miner's wife have been mending my kum-ings.

1937

This was a cold job waiting for seal in the raw air by the open water with the temperature about 25 below zero, and my feet were cold, notwithstanding the polar bear hide on the soles of my "kamiks."

1940

In the Eastern Arctic one speaks of skin-boots or kumik never mukluks.

1963

[Caption] . . . the child's mother chats with Sally as she busily mends Batiste's kamiks. . . .