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

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

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

It is either this, or a sudden accession of ambition, that overcomes her, because, without a moment's notice, she turns gently on her left heel, and executes a tiny pirouette on her small Hessian boots.

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

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 Flaubert, Gustave

“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.