half-boot

• “In that instant, she brought the heel of her half-boot down on his instep as hard as she could and dropped to the ground.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

• “If the price tag — a whopping $755 at Barneys — is bit too high, try Jeffrey Campbell's open-toe half-boot in black. $190 at revolveclothing. com”

  Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup

• “This would not do; she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in complete occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute.”

  Emma

• “This was a foot in a half-boot of very flexible black leather, laced tight to the ankle and calf, much worn and patched, not much larger than his own, attached to a leg in rusty black trews with worn places along the hem.”

  Take A Thief

• “Nevertheless, there was something good in the arrangement of the upper part of the shoe or half-boot of those times, and even of earlier days, as any one who reads the”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “The true æsthetical article is either the elastic half-boot of the middle ages; fitting on to the pantaloon, or else the thin Wellington boot of the present day under the trousers.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “Then they cover the feet with large socks, or, as it were, half-buskins fastened by buckles, over which they wear a half-boot, and besides, as I have already said, they are clothed with a toga.”

  City of the Sun

• “Georgette raised the bottom of her dress, in order to descend more quickly the steps, she exhibited to Frisky's indifferent eyes a beautiful ankle, and the beginning of the plump calf of a fine leg, encased in white silk, and a charming little foot, in a laced half-boot of Turkish satin.”

  The Wandering Jew — Volume 02

• “When Georgette raised the bottom of her dress, in order to descend more quickly the steps, she exhibited to Frisky's indifferent eyes a beautiful ankle, and the beginning of the plump calf of a fine leg, encased in white silk, and a charming little foot, in a laced half-boot of Turkish satin.”

  The Wandering Jew — Complete

• “He wore breeches or drawers reaching to the knees, and his feet and the lower part of the leg were covered with the _cothurnus_, a sort of traveller's half-boot.”

  Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)

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