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Arctic footwear
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mukluk
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Mukluks or Kamik ( ᑲᒥᒃ ) (singular: kamak , plural: kamiit ) are a soft boot traditionally made of caribou skin or sealskin and were originally worn by Arctic aboriginal people, including the Inuit and Yupik . The term mukluk is often used for any soft ...
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n. 1 (context Canada US English) A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik. 2 (context Canada US English) A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper.
Usage examples of mukluk.
He hung up his felt-liners and mukluk insoles from the apex of the tent to dry.
Yarans were dressed in short grey kilts with grey, woolly-looking leggings underneath that terminated in a sort of mukluk over each foot, and bulky, thick, green sweater-like upper garments with parka-type hoods which they wore thrown back on their shoulders.
After all, he seemed like a decent man, perhaps in his fifties, cleanly dressed in what I regarded as the Alaskan uniform: turtleneck, heavy wool shirt, jeans, and mukluks.
She'd traded her prim woolens and sensible shoes for mukluks and drab parachute pants.
The Poltroyans romped and chortled in the stinging cold, and wore fish-fur mukluks and oversized Dartmouth souvenir sweat shirts over their traditional robes.