Also 7 baboushe, 9 baboosh. [a. F. babouche (cf. Sp. babucha), a. Arab. bābūsh, ad. Pers. pāpōsh a slipper, f. pā foot + pōsh covering, pōshī-den to cover. The change from p to b is seen also in pasha, bashaw.] A Turkish or oriental slipper.
1695. Motteux, St. Olon’s Morocco, 90. They have Shooes, or rather Slippers, without Heel’s, call’d Baboushes.
1863. Times, 7 May, 12/2. They [trousers] fall over a kind of boots of red leather, which are encased in babouches of black leather, to which long spurs are attached.
