half-boots
Example Sentences
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Besides these slippers there were a pair of small, strong, shooting half-boots.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
These men wore a sort of uniform, namely, high-crowned white hats, with flowers in the front, gray frocks, and half-boots; and their performance, I am bound to add, was by no means contemptible.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
Instead of wearing puttees, like his commander, he wears half-boots, like those on the figurine discovered by Dawkins at Petsofa.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
And now the infantry burst into view, a gloomy, solid column tramp, tramp along the road—jägers, with their stiff fore-and-aft shakos, dull-green tunics, and snuffy, red-striped trousers tucked into dusty half-boots.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Shoes like short half-boots are worn here made of seal-skin.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?
