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Seems to be borrowed from Japanese靴(kutsu, “shoe”), attestable since 759 CE, but then some Japanese sources suggest that the Japanese term may have been borrowed from Korean 구두(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?). Compare Hamgyong Korean구주(guju).[1] First attested in the Daehan Maeil Sinbo (大韓每日新報 / 대한매일신보) (No. 84), 1903. The late attestation also points to a late loanword from Japanese.