topboot

plural topboots · alternative top boot · alternative top-boot

1. A high boot, generally with a band of light-coloured leather around the upper part of the leg; a riding boot.

   By this time, his rough homespun had been cast off for a suit of buff and blue, with buckskin breeches, his muddy brogans for the latest top boots.

   1927, Joseph Auslander, Frank Ernest Hill, Theresa West Elmendorf, The Winged Horse, page 220

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   And then he walked, with his gleaming gloves either side of his greenish-black frock coat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other to protect his brilliant top boots from the dust on the road, along the straight avenue that led up to the palace of Schönbrunn.

   2002, Michael Hofmann, transl., The Radetsky March, Folio Society, translation of original by Joseph Roth, published 2015, page 282