half-boots
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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
Shoes are now more to the shape of the foot, and high boots strapped up over the knee, also half-boots with the tops turned over to be seen.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
A pair of gold ear-rings, bracelets of the same metal, and half-boots of alligator's skin and scarlet cloth, completed her graceful exterior.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
Mahommed gave him a pair of red morocco half-boots for a child, on which, near the tops, a name was worked in silk.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
Her new dress is extravagant: Russian half-boots of violet-blue velvet trimmed with ermine, and a skirt of the same material, decorated with narrow stripes and rosettes of furs.
From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage
