Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A compressed leather shield for covering the side of a horse's knee. The wrapper is of soft leather or felt.
- n. A boot which comes to the knee.
Examples
“Is the stiletto, also the knee-boot, which is obviously why I am backing Miu Miu's block heels see 7 above, £400”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Next comes Louboutin's "Harletty" suede knee-boot (£1,095), Chanel's two-tone suede, quilted boot with a sensible heel (£971) and my own particular favorites, from the master himself, Manolo Blahnik, in petrol blue or black suede (£800).”
“The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘knee-boot’.
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Knee-ded Words
In honor (?) of John
aknee, anomalogonatous, anticnemion, bainberg, bandy-jig, besagne, bight, bott, knee, breast-knee, cartilage, cnemapophysis and 155 more...
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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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