half-boots
Example Sentences
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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 Fernanda Savage
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 Charles Dickens
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 Henry Yule
On their feet they wore sometimes shoes, with puttees twisted round the lower part of the leg, and sometimes half-boots, as shown on the Chieftain Vase and one of the Petsofa figurines.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
I wore a white doublet with a pair of white hose and a pair of half-boots, into which I had stuck the poniard I have mentioned.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
