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I beg to call his attention to the authority quoted in the passage respecting the "Knightes caligate of

—Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850

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One wearing stockings.
A common soldier; also, a faint-hearted coward. Coles, 1717.

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I beg to call his attention to the authority quoted in the passage respecting the "Knightes caligate of — Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
"Knightes caligate of Armes." — Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850

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from Latin caligatus, booted, from caliga, a shoe, a boot.

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