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Galligaskins   Listen
noun
Galligaskins  n. pl.  Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.






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"Galligaskins" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dudley, "the accidental shaping of a ruff, or the manner of disposing of the folds of my galligaskins, an imitation of a ...
— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... the same? But the truth was, that Phutatorius knew not one word or one syllable of what was passing—but his whole thoughts and attention were taken up with a transaction which was going forwards at that very instant within the precincts of his own Galligaskins, and in a part of them, where of all others he stood most interested to watch accidents: So that notwithstanding he looked with all the attention in the world, and had gradually skrewed up every nerve ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne



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