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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch veldschoen (Cape Dutch), from vel (“skin, hide”) + schoen (“shoe”); later reinforced by Afrikaans veldskoen.
Pronunciation
Noun
veldskoen (plural veldskoens or veldskoene)
- (South Africa) Originally, a shoe with untanned leather upper sewn without nails, similar to the Canadian moccasin; now generally a heavy boot for outdoor labour.
1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 28:ll my life I've been surrounded by violence. Not in the way any of my quite long line of pioneer forefathers experienced it, leaving their veldskoen tracks through history […]
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References
1978: A Dictionary of South African English. Edited Jean Branford. Oxford.