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Definition of Half boot
1. Noun. A boot reaching halfway up to the knee.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Boot
Literary usage of Half boot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1885)
"... would put an end to such quibbles. ruled the objection, observing that while
there was a distinction between a half-boot and half a boot, ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[1 GEL-, CALC-], a shoe, half- boot (covering the whole foot) ... minor uret,
H.—Because senators wore a peculiar half-boot ..."
3. Letters from England by Robert Southey (1836)
"By this time the half-boot was grown to the size of the whole one. The Austrians,
as they were called, yielded to the Hessians, which having the seams on ..."
4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"boot to lxx>t; demi , half-boot: de cheval, riding-boot; by the garde républicaine;
demi-forte, (unif.) sort of jack-boot worn donner une , (fenc. ..."
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