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galligaskins

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gal·li·gas·kins  (gl-gsknz)
pl.n.
1. Loosely fitting hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. Loose trousers.
3. Chiefly British Leggings.
[Perhaps alteration (influenced by galley, and Gascon) of French garguesques, variant of greguesques, from Spanish gregüescos, from griego, Greek, from Latin Graecus; see Greek.]


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He had somehow picked up a troop of droll children, little hatless boys with their galligaskins much worn and scant shirting to hang out, little girls who tossed their hair out of their eyes to look at him, and guardian brothers at the mature age of seven.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
The company was completed by a peasant in a rude dress of undyed sheepskin, with the old-fashioned galligaskins about his legs, and a gayly dressed young man with striped cloak jagged at the edges and parti-colored hosen, who looked about him with high disdain upon his face, and held a blue smelling-flask to his nose with one hand, while he brandished a busy spoon with the other.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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