Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A protection for the shoes, hose, etc., from mud and rain, worn especially by horsemen in the seventeenth century. They appear to have been sometimes of the nature of boots and sometimes of the nature of leggings. Also
gamaches .
Wiktionary
- n. High boots or buskins.
- n. Scotland Short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
Etymologies
- French gamaches. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Only, instead of the tight-fitting stockings and neat pumps, which should have completed the costume, long leathern gamashes extended from knee to ankle, and were met below the latter by stout high-quartered shoes.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
“He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices, of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs, and spoke to him the whilst: — “What a fine specimen of the olden time is your father, Sir Henry!”
“He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices, of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs, and spoke to him the whilst: -- "What a fine specimen of the olden time is your father, Sir Henry!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gamashes’.
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Boots
Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.
"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wakeankle-jack, jackboot, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, wellie, gumboot, galoshes, goloe-shoes, galosh, overshoe, galoche, galage and 73 more...
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fbharjo How splatter dashing! Jan 2, 2013