moccasinedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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moccasined (not comparable)

1. Wearing moccasins.
   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3:

     To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood.

   • 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 4, page 233:

     The Bishop stood watching the flowing, supple movements of their arms and shoulders, the sure rhythm of their tiny moccasined feet, no larger than cottonwood leaves, as without a word of instruction they followed the irregular and strangely-accented music.