Obs. Also 5 butwe, buttwe, butewe, 6 botowe, boatew(e. [f. bote, BOOT sb.3; cf. F. diminutives in -eau.] ? A short boot.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 45. Botew, coturnus, botula, crepita.
1463. Ripon Ch. Acts, 159. j par de buttwe shon.
1481. Gild Cordwainers Exeter, in E. E. Gilds, 332. All wete lethere and drye botez, botwez, schoez, pyncouz, galegez.
1483. Cath. Angl., 49. A Butewe, ocreola.
a. 1529. Skelton, Magnyf., 765. A betell, or a botowe [printed batowe] or a buskyn lacyd.
1555. Fardle Facions, II. xii. 269. The Bisshoppes … xv. holy garmentes … His boatewes, his Amice, an Albe.
