Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A half-boot; a woman's fine shoe.
- n. An appliance resembling a boot, with straps, springs, buckles, etc., to correct or prevent distortion of the lower limbs and feet of children.
Wiktionary
- n. A small boot; a lady's boot.
- n. An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small boot; a lady's boot.
- n. An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
Etymologies
- French. See boot ("type of footwear"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I went into a shop, where I hoped to get potted meat, and asked for "pâté en bottine," which being interpreted is meat in boots, which was unfortunate.”
“Is she not handsome as she stands fronting the folding doors, her hand in tall Mr. Trezevant's, just as she commences to dance, with the tip of her black bottine just showing?”
“She give me the _bottine_, if I let great buckra massa talk to Fraulein SMEETS.”
“The attitude certainly showed the svelte perfection of her form to advantage; and from the unavoidable circumstances of the position, it also showed one of the most beautifully formed feet that ever was seen, together with the whole of the exquisite little bottine that clothed it, a beautifully turned ankle, and perhaps as much as two inches of the silk stocking above the boot.”
“17.30 Deja vu (R) 18.30 FILM: "Bach et bottine," Canada, 1986, comedy drama with Mahee Paiement, Raymond Legault, Andree Pelletier”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bottine’.
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nouns
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phrontistery - b
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Boots
Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.
"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wakeankle-jack, jackboot, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, wellie, gumboot, galoshes, goloe-shoes, galosh, overshoe, galoche, galage and 73 more...
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