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

Then followed breeches of rich purple padusoy, having white satin bows at the knee, among which the little silver bells of the Hessian boots jingled.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Brock, tall, fair, big-limbed, a blue-eyed giant, imposing in scarlet coat and blue-white riding trousers, tasselled Hessian boots, and cocked-hat in hand.

From The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Walter R. Nursey

I cannot even bear to think of grand-mamma showing her ankles and Hessian boots!

From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Gustave Doré

The driver of the vehicle, in Hessian boots, wore a three-cornered hat with a long piece of crape falling down from it.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert