half-boots

Knee-breeches of the same material, with laced half-boots and leather leggins, set off his stout calf and well turned ankle.

From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert

Besides these slippers there were a pair of small strong shooting half-boots.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

Their legs were bare, but painted with the juice of the huito, which made it appear that they had on half-boots.

From Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by A.W. Cooper

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 Norman half-boots had soles of wood, while the uppers were of a more pliable material.

From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner