A small boot.
1799. For sale, 180 pairs of bootees.—The Aurora (Phila.), Nov. 15.
1805. Egbert Taylor advertises “Cossacks, Suwarrows, Back-straps, Fire-buckets, Spear and Double-tongues, Full Boots, Three Quarter Boots, Bootees, &c.”—Lancaster (Pa.) Journal, March 29.
1844. We give singular names to articles now-a-days. We all know what “boots” are, and by habit we have learned to comprehend also what “bootees” are, though the name is an abominable one.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Dec. 18.
