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

Instead of wearing puttees, like his commander, he wears half-boots, like those on the figurine discovered by Dawkins at Petsofa.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James

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

Half of them were in white fatigue-dress and flat cap,—and wore half-boots of brown leather with short hunting-spurs and black straps; no chains.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

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 Yule, Henry