DCHP-2
botte française Cdn French "French Shoe" DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a boot or shoe of tanned leather, as opposed to the soft leather moccasin of the Indians and coureurs-de-bois.
See also: botte sauvage
- 1889 Home-made trousers of the home-woven gray woolen étoffe du pays tucked into the wrinkled legs of the long moccasins tied below the knee, which, in contradiction from town-made "bottes françaises," are known as "bottes sauvages."
- 1889 Home-made trousers of the home-woven gray woolen étoffe du pays tucked into the wrinkled legs of the long moccasins tied below the knee, which, in contradiction from town-made "bottes françaises," are known as "bottes sauvages."