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

Mahommed gave him a pair of red morocco half-boots for a child, on which, near the tops, a name was worked in silk.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis

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 Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

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 Herbert, Henry William

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