Crossword clues for galligaskins
galligaskins
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galligaskins \Gal`li*gas"kins\, n. pl. [Prob. corrupted fr. It. Grechesco Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have been afterwards confused with Gascony, as if they came from Gascony.] Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Usage examples of "galligaskins".
They wore jerkins and galligaskins and hose, many sporting soft caps with feathers in them.
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.
He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.
The pockets of their sodden cloaks and galligaskins were being rifled by those too small or infirm to loot the greater riches of the washed-up chests.
She had the Common Field Cowslip, the Primrose Cowslip, the Single Green Cowslip, Curled Cowslips, or Galligaskins, Double Cowslips, or Hose-in-Hose, and the Franticke or Foolish Cowslip, or Jackanapes on Horsebacke.
Their galligaskins are such as to bear out their bums and make their attire to fit plum around them.
And in vestibulo, i’ the lobby to-wit, (Iacobi Facciolati’s rendering, sir,) Donn’d galligaskins, antigropeloes, And so forth.