half-boots
Example Sentences
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On their feet they wore sometimes shoes, with puttees twisted round the lower part of the leg, and sometimes half-boots, as shown on the Chieftain Vase and one of the Petsofa figurines.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
The shoes worn at this place in some measure resemble half-boots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?
The black half-boots, the white doeskin breeches, the brown brass-buttoned frock, and the white hat with the brown cockade.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
Nevertheless, though the Sergeant mounted first, Rollo followed so closely that his hands upon the rounds of the ladder were more than once in danger of being trodden upon by the Sergeant's half-boots.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He was dressed in a slouch hat, a flannel shirt, a wrinkled old business suit and mud-splashed, laced half-boots.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
