Lexicographical Neighbors of Finsko
Literary usage of Finsko
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"Then, too, we took squares of " vadmel," or Norwegian home- * Compare my description
of " finsko," in The First Crossing of Greenland, pp. 47 and 48. ..."
2. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"I tumbled out of my bunk, putting a coat, waistcoat, and trousers over my pajamas
and a pair of " finsko " on my feet. It was brilliant moonlight and quite ..."
3. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"They are more comfortable to walk in over uneven surfaces, and are warmer than
the reindeer-skin finsko, but are heavier, stronger, and more durable. ..."
4. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... this verse on cards in the various Scandinavian dialects ; and now when I come
to a group of foreigners I take out my cards and ask, " finsko ? Norsko ? ..."
5. The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean; Airship by Walter Wellman (1911)
"Upon our feet we had finsko, or moccasins of reindeer-skin ; and though these
are the best of all footwear for Arctic use, their soles are so slippery that, ..."
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