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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Hessian boots

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

He had white trousers, long Hessian boots, and, as usual, the Madras handkerchief on his head.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

He opened it; when a little thick-set figure, in Hessian boots, wrapped up in an ample blue cloth cloak, with an immense cape, and having a red comforter tied round his throat, presented himself.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

A blue coat, light breeches fitting the leg well, a light waistcoat over a waistcoat of some other colour, never a startling contrast, Hessian boots, or top-boots and buckskins.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

"Ware wheat! ware wheat! ware wheat!" was now the general cry, as a gentleman in nankeen pantaloons and Hessian boots with long brass spurs, commenced a navigation across a sprouting crop.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

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