galligaskins

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“
Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins--I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged.

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  1. plural noun Loosely fitting hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  2. plural noun Loose trousers.
  3. plural noun Chiefly British Leggings.

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  • 1676-1708 Splendid Shilling Line 121 My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue?) —  Familiar Quotations
  • Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins--I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. —  The Monastery
  • The jerkin, the doublet, the galligaskins were put on to serve the practical purposes of life, not to attract the policeman or the spinster. —  A Book of Scoundrels
  • It was still her habit to appear publicly in jerkin and galligaskins, to smoke tobacco in contempt of her sex, and to fight her enemies with a very fury of insolence. —  A Book of Scoundrels
  • O you Revolutionists! who would have no state, no ceremonial, and but one order of galligaskins! —  The House on the Beach
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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by galley and Gascon) of French garguesques, variant of greguesques, from Spanish gregüescos, from griego, Greek, from Latin Graecus; see Greek.

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  1. Formerly also gallygaskins, gallygascoynes, gallogascoins (abbreviation gaskins, gascoynes); a corruption (due to a mistaken notion that “these trowsers were first worn by the Gallic Gascons, i. e., the inhabitants of Gascony”—Webster's Dict.) of Old French garguesques, Norman gargache, a perverted form of greguesques, “slops, gregs, gallogascoins, Venitians,” which appears contracted in ”gregues, wide slops, gregs, gallogascoins, Venitians, great Gascon or Spanish hose” (Cotgrave), really of Italian (Venetian) origin, from Italian Grechesco, Greekish, from Greco, from Latin Græcus, Greek: see Greek, grecco, grego, gregs. Cf. pantaloons, also of Venetian origin.
 

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