Bottes.

A propose de bottes. By the by, thus: Mais, Mons., à propos de bottes, comment se porte madame votre mère?

“That venerable personage [the Chaldæan Charon] not only gives Izdubar instructions how to regain his health, but tells him, somewhat a propos des bottes … the long story of his perfidious adventure.”—Nineteenth Century, June, 1891, p. 911.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.