zancha

• a kind of soft Parthian shoe, Gallien. ap. Treb. Claud. 17; Cod. Th. 14, 10, 2.

or zanga. A high and close boot, made of soft black leather (Acron. ad Hor. Sat. i. 6, 27), worn by the Oriental races under their trousers (bracae) (Imp. Gall.ap. Treb. Claud. 17).