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- noun a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Ursa Major
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Examples
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Vnder his shirt he hath linnen breeches, vpon his legs, a paire of hose without feete, and his bootes of red or yellow leather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These Northern merchants are apparelled with woollen cloth and hats, white hosen close, and bootes which be of Moscouia or
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They haue also my sword, my bootes, my bowe and arrowes that I bought at Smolensco, which cost me foure marks, my sled, my felt, the comhold, a booke of the Flowres of godly prayers, and my booke wherein my charges were written.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if he can telle mee of a citie on earthe where one can see more prettye, tiny feete, in neater shoos or gaytered bootes, thann hee may then beholde, I wolde fayne knowe where itt is, thatt I maye go there too.
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A grete nombre of them whych purchased those superstycyose mansyons reserved of those lybrarye bokes, some to serve theyr jakes, some to scoure theyr candelstyckes, and some to rubbe theyr bootes; some they solde to the grossers and sope sellers, and some they sent over see to the bokebynders, [9] not in small nombre, but at tymes _whole shippes ful_.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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After these fower Knightes in rich apparell with hats and feathers, rapiers and daggers, bootes and spurres, everie one his Lackie attending on him with torch-light, all two by two.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Shirt: 3: bands: 8 handkecheirfs: 4 neckcloaths: 7: pa: cuffs: 1. bootes tops: 1 cap: an old towell: a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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I haue herd from dyvers graue and reuerend menn, who oughte to know, [sith that ther wyves hadd tolde them,] that manie of these demoiselles do wear verie longe bootes, but howe long they may bee I knowe not.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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A great nombre of them whych purchased these superstycyouse mansyons reserved of those lybrary bokes, some to serve theyr jakes, some to scoure theyr candlestycks, and some to rubbe theyr bootes.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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A grete nombre of them wych purchased of those superstycyose mansyons reserved of those lybrarye bokes, some to serve theyr jaks, some to scoure theyr candelstyckes, and some to rubb theyr bootes. some they solde to the grossers and sope sellers, and some they sent over see to the bokebynders, not in small nombre, but at tymes whole shippesful.
chained_bear commented on the word bootes
"... in astronomy, the name of a constellation in the northern hemisphere, containing 54 stars in Flamstead's sic; John Flamsteed's catalogue, and 64 in the catalogue published in the Tables de Berlin; one of which ... is called Arcturus."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 52
October 12, 2008