Obs. Also 5 brodkyne, 6 brotekin, -ikin. [a. F. brodequin (15th c. in Littré), (for which Du Guez c. 1532 has brousequin) related to Flem. brosekin, broseken (Kilian) buskin, also to It. borzacchino, Sp. borceguí, formerly also boszeguí buskin: the inter-relations of which are as yet uncertain. The mod.Du. broos, formerly brôze buskin, is according to Franck probably shortened from broseken. See BUSKIN.]
A high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs; a buskin. Also attrib.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (1844), 345. My Lord paid for a peyer of brodkynes … xd.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 3143. I can make schone, brotekins and buittis.
[1565. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. (1728), 111. A pair of brotikins on his feet to the great of his legs.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, II. xv. How wouldest thou defend thyself? With great buskinades or brodkin blowes … provided thursts were forbidden.
1725. Echard, Hist. Eng., II. 836 (L.). Instead of shoes and stockings, a pair of buskins or brodekins.
[1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, xxiii. From their bonnets to their brodequins.]
