brodequin
Also 5 brodkyne, 6 brotekin, -ikin, 7 brodkin, 8 brodekin.
[a. F. brodequin (15th c. in Littré), (for which Du Guez c 1532 has brousequin) related to Flem. brosekin, broseken (Kilian) buskin, also to It. borzacchino, Sp. borcegu{iacu}, formerly also boszegu{iacu} buskin: the inter-relations of which are as yet uncertain. The mod.Du. broos, formerly brôze buskin, is according to Franck probably shortened from broseken. See buskin.]
A high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs; a buskin. Also attrib.
| 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1844) 345 My Lord paid for a peyer of brodkynes..xd. 1535 Lyndesay Satyre 3143, I can make schone, brotekins and buittis. c 1565 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. (1728) 111 A pair of brotikins on his feet to the great of his legs. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais ii. xv, How wouldest thou defend thyself? With great buskinades or brodkin blowes..provided thursts were forbidden. 1725 Echard Hist. Eng. II. 836 (L.) Instead of shoes and stockings, a pair of buskins or brodekins. c 1845 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. x. 159 Trim Parisian brodequins showed her..feet, to complete advantage. 1850 Thackeray Pendennis xxiii, From their bonnets to their brodequins. 1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô vii. 184 He soiled his purple brodequins. |