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
From my first arrival in Westbothland, I had remarked that all the inhabitants used a peculiar kind of shoes or half-boots, called K�ngor.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
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
Some of the people hereabouts clean their half-boots and harness with the fat of fish; others purchase blacking from Norway.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
The latter gentleman had a large staff, a large head, large features, and large half-boots; and he looked as if he had been taking a proportionate allowance of ale—as indeed he had.
From Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles
