buskins

• The girls might have come from Carnaby Street or from King's Road in their buskins, miniskirts, false eyelashes. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• One troop of them rode in the attitude and armour of men: their chief wore gilt spurs and buskins, and thence acquired the epithet of the golden-footed lady. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• His feet were encased in buskins, a sash of black and yellow passed over his left shoulder and was knotted upon his right hip, while at his left dangled a short sword encased in a jewelled scabbard, supported by a jewelled belt or chain of broad links, all made of the same gold-like metal. —  In Search of El Dorado
• She broke the string of a bracelet of beads of amber inlaid with gold, which rolled over the floor with a loud noise, causing Candaules to reopen his gradually closing eyes Each one of those beads fell upon the heart of Gyges as a drop of molten lead falls upon water Having unlaced her buskins, the queen threw her upper tunic over the back of an ivory chair. —  King Candaules
• One athletic young soldier caught the loose end of the string of one of my buskins, as it hung over my instep close to the ground and pulled himself up hand over hand, amid the enthusiastic cheers of his comrades I had walked nearly another mile, when almost in front of me, and perhaps a hundred yards away, I saw a remarkable sight that I did not at first understand. —  The Girl in the Golden Atom

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