Hessian boots

plural noun

1. men's high boots with tassels around the top, fashionable in England in the early 19th century

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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