veldskoen means originally, a shoe with untanned leather upper sewn without nails, similar to the Canadian moccasin; now generally a heavy boot for outdoor labour. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
veldskoen is pronounced /ˈfeltskʊn/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch veldschoen (Cape Dutch), from vel (“skin, hide”) + schoen (“shoe”); later reinforced by Afrikaans veldskoen.
noun
- 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 […]”