Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottes
Literary usage of Bottes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Niphon and Pe-che-li; Or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China by Edward Barrington De Fonblanque (1862)
"The latter informed us, a propos de bottes, that Englishmen and Americans spoke
the same language, sprang from the same stock, and that Shakspeare belonged ..."
2. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Une paire de grosses bottes, a pair of strong—heavy boots, ... Otez—tirez ros
bottes, take off, pull off your boots. Cirer des bottes, to black boots. ..."
3. Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789: Undertaken More Particularly by Arthur Young (1794)
"... all may give 1600 bottes of hay, each of lalb. or 19200! ... be reckoned at
500 bottes, at two cuts on a mine, or 1000 the arpent, ..."
4. Tʻoung pao by Demiéville, Paul, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Henri Cordier, Paul Pelliot, Edouard Chavannes, Gustaaf Schlegel (1893)
"Comme on le sait, les officiers chinois ont continué à porter depuis de longues
bottes noires, quoique les - tiges soient faites maintenant de soie noire. ..."
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