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n. - Protective stockings worn with or in place of tall shoes.

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  • I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater then the former.
  • I had yet in reserve one paire of whole stockings, and a paire of boothose, greater than the former.
  • I sleepd well enough; and riseing nixt morning, I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke one, and one boothose, the accoustrement under
  • The roome, which was a low parlour, being well searched with candles, the top of my great boothose was found at a hole, in which they had drawne all the rest.
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