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

"Well, sir, I can tell you that Mr Cophagus still sighs after his blue cotton-net pantaloons and Hessian boots."

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

For the purpose of making any change in her dress as difficult as possible, she wore a high, tight-fitting black velvet frock, fastened at the back, and high Hessian boots, with innumerable buttons.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

"Who the devil are you?" in a gruff voice, cried Mr Handycock; a man about six feet high, dressed in blue cotton-net pantaloons and Hessian boots, with a black coat and waistcoat.

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick

“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.