half-boots
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Postín or sheepskin coat is almost universal on both sides of the Hindu Kúsh; and Wood notes: "The shoes in use resemble half-boots, made of goatskin, and mostly of home manufacture."
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Shoes like short half-boots are worn here made of seal-skin.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
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
