riding boot

noun

1. a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of riding boot¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Then we would never have gotten this far, Valerie declared, struggling to pull on a brown riding boot.

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The colonel noted with a good-natured surprise the position of his stout riding-boot, and withdrew it.

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"To Courtland," he confessed, somewhat reluctantly, looking down at the peaked toe of his tanned leather riding-boot.

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He was standing at the door, tapping his riding-boot impatiently with a heavy whip; a man was holding his horse in readiness.

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It was on one of these that Ricky had left her mark in the clean-cut outline of the sole of her riding-boot.

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