Both Uses of
moccasin
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Fur coats, fur caps, fur mittens, overshoes buckling almost to the knees, gray knitted scarfs ten feet long, thick woolen socks, canvas jackets lined with fluffy yellow wool like the plumage of ducklings, moccasins, red flannel wristlets for the blazing chapped wrists of boys—these protections against winter were busily dug out of moth-ball-sprinkled drawers and tar-bags in closets, and all over town small boys were squealing, "Oh, there's my mittens!" or "Look at my shoe-packs!"†
Chpt 7 *moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
- She found a moccasin-flower beside a lichen-covered log.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(moccasin) a soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, moccasin appears in water moccasin -- a type of poisonous snake.