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- noun A thermal
boot made fromreindeer skin and fur.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'finnesko' over which it is laced -- they are less than half the weight of an ordinary ski boot, go on very easily, and secure very neatly.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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My hands tremble tying the ropes around his finnesko.
Wintering Ally Malinenko 2011
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No snow had penetrated the inner lining and all their equipment was neatly stowed -- pannikins, spare clothing, chronometers, finnesko, socks and a flag as well as more letters, and, movingly, the "chatty little notes" the supporting parties had left for Scott as they returned to Cape Evans.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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Our socks and finnesko, hung out to dry, were covered with most beautiful feathery crystals.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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They have leather beckets and a lanyard rove off for making them fast over the finnesko.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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In addition to other obvious advantages this materially helped to keep clothing, finnesko, and sleeping-bags dry, and thus prolong the life of furs.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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Armitage; but soon felt slush coming through his finnesko (he had no crampons) and made back for the Gap.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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First there was a steep slope, so hard that a pick made little impression upon it, so slippery that if you started down in finnesko you never could stop: this ended in a great ice-cliff some hundreds of feet high, and then came miles of pressure ridges, crevassed and tumbled, in which you might as well look for a daisy as a tent: and after that the open sea.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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A kind of Norwegian hay used as packing in finnesko.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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For the rest we mended our finnesko, and read Bleak House.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
MaryW commented on the word finnesko
Richard Farr, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic 1910-1913 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), ch. 6December 26, 2015