1
: a sealskin or reindeer-skin boot typically worn by Indigenous peoples of usually arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and eastern Siberia
2
: a boot often of duck with a soft leather sole and worn over several pairs of socks
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In a 2011 interview with Karen Brewster, Argus remembered seeing Thayer’s crampon had slipped off, to the side of his mukluk.
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Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
There were a few high heels mixed in with the mukluks and many varieties of sturdy hiking boots.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
Midday on a downtown street she was adorned from headdress to mukluk with items hand-fashioned by herself and her family.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
Instead of names being drawn from a mukluk at a packed banquet in Anchorage’s Dena’ina Center, this year’s starting order was determined by a digital number generator.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2021
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Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
There were a few high heels mixed in with the mukluks and many varieties of sturdy hiking boots.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
Midday on a downtown street she was adorned from headdress to mukluk with items hand-fashioned by herself and her family.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
Instead of names being drawn from a mukluk at a packed banquet in Anchorage’s Dena’ina Center, this year’s starting order was determined by a digital number generator.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2021
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“Mukluk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mukluk. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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mukluk
noun
muk·luk
ˈmək-ˌlək 
1
: a sealskin or reindeer-skin boot typically worn by Indigenous peoples of usually arctic regions of Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia
2
: a boot with a soft leather sole worn over several pairs of socks
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