oxhide shoe

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a boot or shoe of ox or buffalo hide, used by voyageurs, canoemen, settlers, etc., usually of local manufacture.

Quotations

1944

Most of the shoes meant for the voyageurs and canoemen were of local manufacture. Some of them were called . . . oxhide shoes.