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bottine|ˈbɒtiːn|
Also 6 Sc. botyn(e.
[a. F. bottine, dim. of botte boot. Adopted in Sc. in 16th c., and independently in Eng. in 19th.]
1. A buskin, a large boot partly covering the leg.
1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 57 With rede botynis on thair schankis hie. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance i. 4 The women in the Pueblos north of Santa Fé..wear a bottine, or legging, shaped somewhat like a Wellington boot.
2. A light kind of boot worn by ladies and children, a half-boot.
c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xii. 194 Large feet tortured into small bottines. 1866Illust. Lond. News 2 June 546 The fashionable bottines have merely the toes of leather, the remainder of the boot being of some thin textile fabric. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. 367 Some white gloves and some new bottines. |