"top-boot" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: top-boots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} top-boot (plural top-boots)
  1. Alternative form of topboot Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: topboot
    Sense id: en-top-boot-en-noun-UeCn0tGv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
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