moccasin
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A water moccasin may glide silently past, and a few times we’ve seen iridescent alligator eyes peering out at us before they sank back down into the depths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
She wore a dark jacket over a sky-blue, rainbow-trimmed ribbon skirt embroidered with imagery of butterflies, stars and corn; moccasin boots; a turquoise and silver belt and necklace; and dragonfly earrings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
The silver buttons up the side of each moccasin had rainbirds carved on them.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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There I met Nikola Pavlovic, a genial salesman wearing a flamingo-patterned bucket hat atop long hair, canvas moccasins and a shirt covered in psychedelic flowers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
They also collected Native American art, including moccasins, shirts, and beadwork that has toured the country in exhibitions.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
These sheepskin-lined moccasins also come in two widths, making them especially friendly for wide-footed dads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
She stepped cautiously over the broken brick paving in her brown felt moccasins.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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