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

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 Wallace, Lewis

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 Calthrop, Dion Clayton

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 Herbert, Henry William