babouche
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babouche
1690s, from Fr. babouche, from Arabic babush, from Pers. papush, from pa "foot" (related to Avestan pad-, see foot) + posh "covering." Arabic, lacking a -p-, regularly converts -p- in foreign words to -b-.
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