Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing or covered with moccasins.
- Intoxicated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
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- adjective Wearing
moccasins .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He lighted it from the camp fire, and sat forward on the blankets, toasting his moccasined feet and smoking parsimoniously.
FINIS 2010
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He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable, sphinx-like, neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking to right or left.
Chapter III 2010
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He knew her feet had been born to easy paths and sunny lands, strangers to the moccasined pain of the North, unkissed by the chill lips of the frost, and he watched and marveled at them twinkling ever through the weary day.
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Before the door could close on his heels, a loose-jointed Yankee shambled in, thrust a moccasined foot to the side and hooked a chair under him, and sat down.
CHAPTER 6 2010
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He knew her feet had been born to easy paths and sunny lands, strangers to the moccasined pain of the North, unkissed by the chill lips of the frost, and he watched and marveled at them twinkling ever through the weary day.
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Linderman the Yukon runs twenty-five hundred miles to Bering Sea, traversing an almost unknown region, the remote recesses of which had never felt the moccasined foot of the pathfinder.
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Though they sat in their undershirts, the sweat noduled and oozed on their faces; yet their feet, heavily moccasined and woollen-socked, tingled with the bite of the frost.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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Then, after gazing long into the flames, she lifted her head to the harsh crunch-crunch of a moccasined foot against the flinty snow granules.
KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010
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But the priest smiled, thrust his moccasined feet to the fore, and went out upon the white breast of the silent river.
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All about them, in the huge bar-room, arose the click and rattle and rumble of a dozen games, at which fur-clad, moccasined men tried their luck.
SHORTY DREAMS 2010
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