botte sauvage

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of sturdy moccasin having uppers reaching well up the lower leg; shoepack (def. 1).

Quotations

1889

His bottes sauvages, in odd contrast with cassock and birette, show that he has just come in from a long tramp. . . .

1928

Leon was well prepared for that with his thick coat, his capuchon, his bottes sauvages, and a good flask of eau-de-vie. . . .

1955

The canotiers always wore tall boots called "bottes sauvages". . . .