half-boots
Example Sentences
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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 Stewart Edward White
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
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
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
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
