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

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 Baikie, James

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

The Norman half-boots had soles of wood, while the uppers were of a more pliable material.

From The Evolution of Fashion by Gardiner, Florence Mary

Old Hector grinned as Donald, in woolen shirt, mackinaw, corduroy trousers, and half-boots came into the little lobby, for in his son he saw a replica of himself thirty years agone.

From Kindred of the Dust by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)