boot-end

Updated: May 6, 2025

In the country he affected grey and a large grey cloth top-hat, except when motoring; then he would have a brown deer-stalker cap and a fur suit of esquimaux cut with a sort of boot-end to the trousers. Of an evening he would wear white waistcoats and plain gold studs. He hated diamonds. "Flashy," he said they were. "Might as well wear an income tax-receipt. All very well for Park Lane.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tono Bungay