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.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. vi. 87. With rede botynis on thair schankis hie.
1884. J. 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.
1866. Illust. 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.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., 367. Some white gloves and some new bottines.