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velskoen

velskoen is the alternative form of veldskoen.

Meaning of veldskoen

Noun

veldskoen (plural veldskoens or veldskoene)

  1. (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.
    • [A]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 […]1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 28

Forms of velskoen

pluralvelskoens
pluralvelskoene

Questions about velskoen

What is velskoen the alternative form of?
Velskoen is the alternative form of veldskoen.

Words near velskoen in the dictionary

  1. Velozes
  2. velpatasvir
  3. VELS
  4. velsecorat
  5. Velsen
  6. velskoen
  7. velskoene
  8. velskoens
  9. velt-marshal
  10. velt-marshals
  11. velte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: velskoen (page history and authors); veldskoen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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