calf-length
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]calf-length (not comparable)
- (of clothing) Reaching to the calf.
- 1974, Hamish MacInnes, Climb to the Lost World, Through Dense Guyanian Rainforest to the Towering Summit of Mount Roraima with Don Whillans and Joe Brown:
- I had taken the precaution of carrying my pair of calf-length thermal boots with me from Maiurapai; they proved very useful in this swampy ground.
- Coordinate term: knee-length