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moccasin

[mok-uh-sin, -zuhn] / ˈmɒk ə sɪn, -zən /
NOUN
slipper
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Then with my own kids making their own memories, watching the peanut butter being made, choosing moccasins from the now-gone moccasin shop at the Dell.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2024

Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2022

“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2022

She wore a dark jacket over a sky-blue, rainbow-trimmed ribbon skirt embroidered with imagery of butterflies, stars and corn; moccasin boots; a turquoise and silver belt and necklace; and dragonfly earrings.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2021

There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Gladstone has worn tennis shoes, scuffed boots and fur-trimmed moccasins for publicity appearances, often with another accessory or pattern that recalls her Siksikaitsitapi and Nez Perce heritage.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2024

Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.

From Washington Times Dec. 4, 2023

Inside were Lakota cultural objects and belongings that had been returned after more than a century on the other side of the country: moccasins, sacred pipes, ritual clothing, beaded leather bags.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2023

Indigenous Environmental Network’s program director, Kandi White, said in a news release that Braun was the type of person that would “give her last meal or pair of moccasins to those in need.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2022

On her feet were soft calf-high moccasins, and she wore all her silver and turquoise jewelry.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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