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top-boot|ˈtɒpbuːt|
[f. top n.1 10 + boot n.3 1.]
1. properly. A high boot, having a top of white, light-coloured, or brown leather or the like (top n.1 10), formerly habitually worn by gentlemen, yeomen, and farmers, in riding or country dress; now by hunting men, jockeys, grooms, and coachmen. Usually in pl.
1768J. R. Peyton Let. 10 Apr. in J. L. Peyton Adventures of my Grandfather (1867) ii. 17, I found my heavy top-boots of immense service. 1813J. F. Rees Art & Myst. Cordwainer 103 How to take the measure..for a jockey or top boot. 1821King in Ireland in New Monthly Mag. II. 407 [The priest] in his black satin breeches and bright top-boots. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer ii, He has purchased a pair of top boots, a swell top coat, and..thinks himself..a topping gentleman. c1868G. Pryme Autobiog. Recoll. xiv. (1870) 220 [In 1782] the County Members went up to the Throne—according to their privilege—in leather breeches and top-boots, instead of Court-dress. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 73 In hunting-dress, buckskin, top-boots and scarlet coat. 1893Vizetelly Glances Back I. iii. 81 Burdett, in his customary buckskins and top boots. 1910O. Barron in Encycl. Brit. VII. 243/2 Men of fashion [in late 18th c.] walked the streets in short top-boots of soft black leather. 1911Ibid. XXIV. 993/1 Such forms as jack-boots, top-boots, Hessian boots and Wellington boots. 1912–13Civil Serv. Co-op. Soc. Price List 916 Coachman's Top Boots. Any Colour Top.
2. Improperly applied to any long or high boots which partly cover the leg.
1891Cent. Dict., Top-boot, a boot having a high top; spec. [as in sense 1]. 1906G. W. Chrystal tr. Mem. Pr. Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerste II. 260 She appeared in pink stockings, black top-boots. 1906Athenæum 19 May 606/3 The new heresy which, to the horror of makers and wearers of ‘top-boots’, gives to the military boot of Eastern Europe that time-honoured name. 1907Ibid. 13 Apr. 440/1 We..dislike the practice of writers on Russia of using for the boot of Eastern Europe the classical term ‘top-boot’, which has in our literature a special meaning. For the British hunting boot there is no other term.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1854Knight Once upon a Time xxxvii. (1859) 497 The top-boot wearers.
Hence ˈtop-ˈbooted a., wearing top-boots.
1829G. Griffin Collegians I. viii. 169 A stout top⁓booted elderly gentleman. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South. |