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
On their feet they wore sometimes shoes, with puttees twisted round the lower part of the leg, and sometimes half-boots, as shown on the Chieftain Vase and one of the Petsofa figurines.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
I wore a white doublet with a pair of white hose and a pair of half-boots, into which I had stuck the poniard I have mentioned.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
The shoes worn at this place in some measure resemble half-boots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
