A jackboot is a military boot such as the cavalry jackboot or the hobnailed jackboot. The hobnailed jackboot has a different design and function from the former type. It is a combat boot designed for marching. It rises to mid-calf or higher without laces and sometimes has a leather sole with hobnails. Jackboots have been associated popularly with totalitarianism, since they were worn by German military and paramilitary forces in the run-up to and during the Second World War. However they have been used officially prior and since by other nations as well, such as the United Kingdom, and had some civilian uses.[1]
- ^ John Carr, The Stranger in France, or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris, (London 1803:32).