moccasin

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moccasin (n) kızılderili çarığı
Meaning
a flat comfortable shoe made of soft leather / If you lose a moccasin on your way to work, it means you'll be walking around with only one shoe all day. A moccasin is a soft leather slip-on shoe. // Her boots were ankle-high moccasins.
More Examples
‘My soft leather moccasins made no noise as I crept along the path like a shadow.’ / ‘If you want to go over the edge, wear sports shoes or slip-ons or moccasins on the feet.’ / ‘Soft or hard sole slippers, moccasins, slip-ons or mules - these are just a few of the appealing styles you can find.’ / ‘To top it off, wear a light brown belt and light brown leather moccasins.’ / Bergman did observe that the young man was shod with brand new moccasins of ox hide.
About Word
(Bildiğin yumuşak deriden ayakkabı) // a flat comfortable shoe made of soft leather // If you lose a moccasin on your way to work, it means you'll be walking around with only one shoe all day. A moccasin is a soft leather slip-on shoe. // Virginian Algonquins get credit for the word moccasin, though a relative of it existed in other American Indian languages to designate a leather shoe so elegant in design that it's now known around the world. Less well known, perhaps, is the correct spelling, which you see here. Everyone seems to know there's a double letter but fewer remember that it's the c, not the s. // A soft leather slipper traditionally worn by certain Native American peoples.
Origins
"North American Indian shoe" (made of deerskin or soft leather), 1610s, from an Algonquian language of Virginia, probably Powhatan makasin "shoe," from Central Atlantic Coast Algonquian *mockasin, similar to Southern New England Algonquian *makkusin, Munsee Delaware mahkusin, Ojibwa makizin. The venomous snake of southern U.S. (1784) is perhaps a different word, but Bright regards them as identical.