field shoe, noun phrase

Origin:
Translation of Dutch veldschoen.
obs.
veldskoen noun sense 1.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. I. 204The Europeans at the Cape have a Sort of Shoes they call Field-Shoes. These are cut out of the raw Hide of an Ox or Stag, and made, the hairy Side outward, in the Shape of a Half-Stocking, slit down in Front from the Ankle to the Toe.
1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. I. 194These field shoes, as they are called, made of almost raw leather, are much more durable.
1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. I. 195They generally wear here what are called field-shoes, which the country people usually make themselves.
1838 J.E. Alexander Exped. into Int. I. 8Field shoes, or a sort of buskin, of untanned leather.
1882 S. Heckford Lady Trader in Tvl 139His feldt-schoons, or field-shoes, made of untanned leather.
1896 H.A. Bryden Tales of S. Afr. 24I had a pair of velschoens — Boer field-shoes, made of strong yet soft leather of home-tanned hide. These shoes were close-fitting, light, and pliable.
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