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moccasin
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The Last of the Mohicans

His moccasins were ornamented after the gay fashion of the natives, while the only part of his under dress which appeared below the hunting-frock was a pair of buckskin leggings, that laced at the sides, and which were gartered above the knees, with the sinews of a deer.
Chpt 3

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans

At length Chingachgook turned his eyes slowly toward his son, and demanded: "Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?"
Chpt 3

Let him go—let him go; 'tis but one man, and he without rifle or bow, many a long mile from his French commerades; and like a rattler that lost his fangs, he can do no further mischief, until such time as he, and we too, may leave the prints of our moccasins over a long reach of sandy plain.
Chpt 12

But when we had followed it for many miles, without finding a single twig broken, as I had advised, my mind misgave me; especially as all the footsteps had the prints of moccasins.
Chpt 12

When the banks of the little stream were gained, Hawkeye made another halt; and taking the moccasins from his feet, he invited Heyward and Gamut to follow his example. He then entered the water, and for near an hour they traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no trail.
Chpt 14

Stoop to it, Uncas, and try what you can make of the moccasin; for moccasin it plainly is, and no shoe.
Chpt 18

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans

...for moccasin it plainly is, and no shoe.
Chpt 18

Heyward reluctantly admitted the truth of this intelligence, and now expressed rather his hopes than his doubts by saying: "One moccasin is so much like another, it is probable there is some mistake."
Chpt 18

One moccasin like another! you may as well say that one foot is like another; though we all know that some are long, and others short; some broad and others narrow; some with high, and some with low insteps; some intoed, and some out.
Chpt 18

One moccasin is no more like another than one book is like another: though they who can read in one are seldom able to tell the marks of the other.
Chpt 18 *

Let me get down to it, Uncas; neither book nor moccasin is the worse for having two opinions, instead of one.
Chpt 18

"That's a trail that nothing but a nose can follow," said the satisfied scout, looking back along their difficult way; "grass is a treacherous carpet for a flying party to tread on, but wood and stone take no print from a moccasin."
Chpt 20

The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
Chpt 21

The measurements agreed, and the former unhesitatingly pronounced that the footstep was that of David, who had once more been made to exchange his shoes for moccasins.
Chpt 21

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans

Here we have three pair of moccasins, and two of little feet.
Chpt 21

His legs were, however, covered with a pair of good deer-skin moccasins.
Chpt 21

But they departed without food, without guns or knives, without moccasins, naked and poor as they were born.
Chpt 24

As he approached, nothing was audible but the rattling of the light silver ornaments that loaded his arms and neck, and the tinkling of the little bells that fringed his deerskin moccasins.
Chpt 28

Magua waited a little, to permit his words to soften the feelings of the Delawares, before he added: "Have there not been strange moccasins in the woods?"
Chpt 28

There have been strange moccasins about my camp.
Chpt 28

Put a shodden hoof on the moccasin of a red-skin, and, if his rifle be once emptied, he will never stop to load it again.
Chpt 32

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans

She called him the "panther of his tribe"; and described him as one whose moccasin left no trail on the dews; whose bound was like the leap of a young fawn; whose eye was brighter than a star in the dark night; and whose voice, in battle, was loud as the thunder of the Manitou.
Chpt 33

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(1) (moccasin)
a soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans.
(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.