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Je flash sur des bottines/basket noir et rose a porter languette pendante ou non enfin ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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And she lifted up a really ravishing foot — small, swarthy, and not misshapen like the majority of feet which look dainty only in bottines.
The Gambler 2003
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The neat bottines, _à la_ Diane Chasseresse, took a charming touch of lightness from the aluminium nails which decorated the "uppers" with a quaint and original Dravidian cornice.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Barbantine: possibly intended for Paar Bottines, pair of half boots: French version, une pair de bottines.
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We have shod her in dainty bottines, regretting the size of her feet.
Tea-Table Talk 1893
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Cupids are there from the shoemakers with the daintiest of bottines.
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Holloway lay well back in a sleepy-hollow chair and looked indolently, lazily handsome; his hostess was up on — well up on the divan, and he had the full benefit of her admirable bottines and their dainty heels and buckles.
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Anne Warner 1891
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Up the staircase tripped a little lady -- a pleasant vision of a silk blouse, butter-coloured lace, golden hair, fawn gloves, and tan bottines, leaving behind her an atmosphere redolent of the latest fashionable perfume mingled with the more delicate scent of the Marechal
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It sounds better said in French: _Prenez votre respiration dans vos bottines.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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Strangely stirred at heart, he marked the distinction of the lady's bearing, her well-gloved hand, clasping a music roll -- and even the natty bottines had not escaped him.
The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874
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