top-boot

See also: top boot and topboot

English

Noun

top-boot (plural top-boots)

1. 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.