half-boots
Example Sentences
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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 Dion Clayton Calthrop
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 Henry William Herbert
They were longer in coming to the surface than they anticipated, owing to the weight of their half-boots, which they had been unable to remove without risk of causing suspicion.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
And now the infantry burst into view, a gloomy, solid column tramp, tramp along the road—jägers, with their stiff fore-and-aft shakos, dull-green tunics, and snuffy, red-striped trousers tucked into dusty half-boots.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Between the loose short trousers and the clumsy half-boots, replacing the sandals that were the customary wear of the person described, several inches of lean and sinewy leg were visible.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
