Also 6 Sc. botyn(e. [a. F. bottine, dim. of botte boot. Adopted in Sc. in 16th c., and independently in Eng. in 19th.]

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  1.  A buskin, a large boot partly covering the leg.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. vi. 87. With rede botynis on thair schankis hie.

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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.

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  2.  A light kind of boot worn by ladies and children, a half-boot.

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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.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., 367. Some white gloves and some new bottines.

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