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bottine

British

/ bɒˈtiːn /

noun

a light boot for women or children; half-boot

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Etymology

Origin of bottine

C19: from French: little boot, from botte boot

Example Sentences

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She give me the bottine, if I let great buckra massa talk to Fraulein Smeets.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

I went into a shop, where I hoped to get potted meat, and asked for "pâté en bottine," which being interpreted is meat in boots, which was unfortunate.

From Letters from France by Mack, Isaac Alexander

Mademoiselle Justine shook her head, tightened her lips, and with sparkling eyes looked round the table, ending with heightened colour and patting her little bottine upon the floor.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

Is she not handsome as she stands fronting the folding doors, her hand in tall Mr. Trezevant's, just as she commences to dance, with the tip of her black bottine just showing?

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan

The foot is shod with a small white silk bottine, laced up at the instep, from the top almost to the toe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

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