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English
Noun
top-boot (plural top-boots)
- Alternative form of topboot
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Church”, in Adam Bede , volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book second, page 20:Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.