galligaskins en · NOUN
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(archaic, historical, plural, plural-only) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather.
1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 64–65:
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Translations (7)
es gregüescos (garment) · de Bluderhose (garment) · pt calças à valona (garment) · de Pluderhose (garment) · fr grègues (garment) · it calzoni alla greca (garment) · it brachesse (garment)