Definitionen
1.NounA soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
2.NounA pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
3.NounA type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
4.NounTragic drama; tragedy.
5.NounAn instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.