transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈmä-kə-sən ]
noun
Etymology: Virginia Algonquian mockasin
Date: circa 1612
1.
a. : a soft leather heelless shoe or boot with the sole brought up the sides of the foot and over the toes where it is joined with a puckered seam to a U-shaped piece lying on top of the foot
b. : a regular shoe having a seam on the forepart of the vamp imitating the seam of a moccasin
2.
a. : water moccasin
b. : a snake (as of the genus Natrix ) resembling a water moccasin