What is "spatterdash"

Usage examples of "spatterdash".

Behind her on the bookshelves were several old-fashioned letter files, the kind with orange backs and black-and-white spatterdash spines, little brass clips to close them with, and leather tabs on their sides to draw them out by.

Jack Spatterdash, whose cab-horse had come down, and Bob Martingale, who had been taken up in a gambling-house, and Tom Cinqbars, who was going to ride the steeplechase.

The men wore curly-brimmed top hats, fur-collared overcoats and glossy patent-leather shoes, with spatterdashes over them to preserve their gloss.

Wherefore are we dispensed from seeking Him in any single place, being assured He is to be discovered neither more nor less in any one spot than in any other, and that you cannot find so much as a pair of old spatterdashes without their due share of Him.

As he ducked back around the easel and returned to his work, Marie walked toward two white-trousered legs that showed beneath what he was doing, sporty trousers wrapped from the knee in gray cloth spatterdashes that buttoned down over black shoes.

A traveler in a silk coat pinned back at the tail for riding, and fashionable new spatterdashes to cover his stockings, spoke up from a booth in the corner.