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Definition of Jackboots
1. jackboot [n] - See also: jackboot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackboots
| jackarses jackboot jackbooted jackboots (current term) jackdaw jackdaws jacked jacked off jacked up jackeen | jackeens jacker jackeroo jackeroos jackers jacket jacket crown jacket potato |
Literary usage of Jackboots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"The foremost, cased in the jackboots of the period, ... of the jackboots put the
affrighted ladies aside, opened the forbidden door of the bedroom, ..."
2. The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten (1866)
"The sign, then, seems to be a sort of caricature of a Welshman, the Goat having
always been considered the emblem of that nation, and the jackboots an ..."
3. The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1889)
"The foremost, cased in the jackboots of the period, •was a broad-faced, ...
Nevertheless, our stout friend of the jackboots put the affrighted ladies aside, ..."
4. Thackeray's Works by William Makepeace Thackeray (1891)
"The foremost, cased in the jackboots of the period, was a broad- faced, ...
Nevertheless, our stout friend of the jackboots put the affrighted ladies aside, ..."
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