Hessian boot

noun

1. a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hessian boot¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

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.

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He held something in his hand which I could not distinguish, as it was dark, so much so that I should have hardly recognized the man himself but for his Hessian boots. 

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I was still forlornly mopping when Niono returned in his braided jacket, tights and Hessian boots, whistling a tune.

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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.

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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.

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