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

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 Calthrop, Dion Clayton

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 Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Bingley, we are told, was great in the character of the Stranger, and wore the tight pantaloons and Hessian boots which stage tradition has duly prescribed as the costume of that doleful personage.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

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