half-boots

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Their high half-boots hit the enemy soil early in the moonlit night of July 9, 1943�hours before Allied landing barges disgorged infantry, tanks and artillery on Sicily's shore.

From Time Magazine Archive

His feet were bare, as on mounting the platform he shook off red half-boots and left them on the sheep's hide on which he was afterwards to pray.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Failing that, he kicked the steelwork with his heavy half-boots, yet no response came to his appeal.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.

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 White, Stewart Edward

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 Savage, Fernanda