Hessian boots

British  

plural noun

1. men's high boots with tassels around the top, fashionable in England in the early 19th century

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Example Sentences

Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Come in,” I cried, and a man in a pair of high Hessian boots, and dressed in black, walked into the room. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

He wore an old-fashioned suit, a droll sort of cap, and Hessian boots.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

Clad in the full-skirted, bottle-green coat, the skin-tight breeches of white leather, and the polished Hessian boots which he affected, he presented a most graceful and gallant figure.

From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

A close-fitting pair of stockings to cover the legs, and peculiar slippers or Hessian boots decorated with tassels, complete the quaint costume.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.