| 单词 |
half-boot |
| 释义 |
ˈhalf-boot [half- II. l.] A boot reaching half-way to the knee, or considerably above the ankle.
1787Cowper Let. 19 Dec., She had half-boots, and laughed at her own figure. 1800Sporting Mag. XV. 49 Half-boots and gilded spurs were a long time used in common visits. 1801M. Edgeworth Belinda (1833) II. xix. 26 Persuaded..to lay aside her half boots, and to equip herself in men's whole boots. 1804Jane Austen Watsons (1879) 340 Nothing sets off a neat ankle more than a half-boot. 1895Oracle Encycl. I. 587/2 The name Caligula..from his wearing the Caligae, or half-boots of the common soldiers. |

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