As for myself, I took my old slips, that had been my faithful companions for over two years, and a pair of good big roomy bootees.
"Samantha at the World's Fair"
Marietta Holley
She forgot all about layettes, and obstetrical outfits, and flannel bands, and safety pins; her mind was a blank in the matter of bootees, and catalogues, and our No. 29E8347, and those hungry bins that always yawned for more.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber
This time, the presentment was the interior of a shop, around which were shelves full of boxes containing all sorts of delicious little gaiters, ties, slippers, bootees and kid pumps, whilst the same kind of articles hung suspended from various hooks and pegs on the wall.
"The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3"
Robert H. Newell