spatterdashed en · ADJ
Etymology
From spatterdashes + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing spatterdashes.
Many young gentlemen canter up on thorough-bred hacks, spatterdashed to the knee, and enter the house to drink cherry-brandy and pay their respects to the ladies
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC: