kurdaitcha shoes

British

plural noun

Also: kadaitcha shoes. (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced

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‘Among them were, perhaps, some curious native p. 304shoes, made of emu’s feathers—they are called Interlinia or, by white men, Kurdaitcha shoes?’

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