half-boots

Shoes like short half-boots are worn here made of seal-skin.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?

Knee-breeches of the same material, with laced half-boots and leather leggins, set off his stout calf and well turned ankle.

From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert

It is laid in the regulations of Mr. Tyson, M.C., who directed that “no gentleman in boots or half-boots be admitted into the rooms on ball nights or card nights.”

From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald

The Postín or sheepskin coat is almost universal on both sides of the Hindu Kúsh; and Wood notes: "The shoes in use resemble half-boots, made of goatskin, and mostly of home manufacture."

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule

Nevertheless, though the Sergeant mounted first, Rollo followed so closely that his hands upon the rounds of the ladder were more than once in danger of being trodden upon by the Sergeant's half-boots.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett