half-boots
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Their high half-boots hit the enemy soil early in the moonlit night of July 9, 1943�hours before Allied landing barges disgorged infantry, tanks and artillery on Sicily's shore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides these slippers there were a pair of small, strong, shooting half-boots.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick
Their legs were bare, but painted with the juice of the huito, which made it appear that they had on half-boots.
From Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by Cooper, A.W.
He was dressed in a slouch hat, a flannel shirt, a wrinkled old business suit and mud-splashed, laced half-boots.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
The Norman half-boots had soles of wood, while the uppers were of a more pliable material.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Gardiner, Florence Mary
