tsarouchi

English

Etymology

From Greek τσαρούχι (tsaroúchi).

Noun

tsarouchi (plural tsarouchis or tsarouchi)

1. Traditional Greek leather shoe with pompom, now worn only by the evzonoi.
   • 1956, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, Penguin, page 47:

     His trousers, patched like his coat, dropped over a pair of scarlet charouhias, leather shoes with upturned toes decorated with a large black-and-white pompon.

   • 1977, Linda Suny Myrsiades, “Greek Resistance Theatre in World War II”, in The Drama Review: TDR‎^[1], volume 21, number 1, page 102:

     Here the struggle of Greece is fought with half a tsarouchi (the distinctive pompommed clogs worn by mountain fighters), rags, a loaf of bread, a handful of corn, and with home-made guns, axes, and poles."