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
Some of the people hereabouts clean their half-boots and harness with the fat of fish; others purchase blacking from Norway.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
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
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
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
