Galligaskins

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries. archaic, historical, plural, plural-only

    "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."

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"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."

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