noun, feminine/ba.buʃ/plural: babouches
babouche
“Ensuite, il a traîné ses babouches sur le bois autrefois verni et il s’est arrêté sur le pas de sa porte pour dire à mi-voix, comme s’il se parlait à lui-même :[…]” — Then, he dragged his oriental slippers along the once-varnished wood and stopped at his doorstop to say, in a low voice, as if he were talking to himself: […]
Inherited from Middle French papouch, babuc, from Ottoman Turkish پاپوش (papuş), from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”). Compare Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš).