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brodekin

brodekin is the alternative form of brodequin.

Meaning of brodequin

Noun

brodequin (plural brodequins)

  1. (obsolete) A buskin or half-boot.
    • Then followed the young monarch and his chevaliers, dressed after the Roman fashion—the cuirass of gold, the robes of frosted silver, the brodequins wrought with gold and silver mixed; and the casques were of silver, with white plumes tipped with scarlet. All were masked; but the King was easily...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 133

Forms of brodekin

pluralbrodekins

Questions about brodekin

What is brodekin the alternative form of?
Brodekin is the alternative form of brodequin.

Words near brodekin in the dictionary

  1. broddle
  2. broddled
  3. broddles
  4. broddling
  5. brode
  6. brodekin
  7. brodekins
  8. Broden
  9. Brodens
  10. brodeo
  11. brodeos

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