Definitions
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- noun A
shoe ofuntanned leather .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He does not wear a stand-up collar, nor an eyeglass, nor spats to his veldtschoon.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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He drops his rifle with a gasp of relief, tears every stitch of clothing from his body, throws the garments from him, and pelts his veldtschoon after them.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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Nor does he see anything out of the way in the fact that one of his feet is encased in an officer's top boot and the other in a remnant of a Boer farmer's cast-off veldtschoon.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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