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"My father, who, by God's mercy, is a tailor and hose maker, taught me to cut out that kind of spatterdashes properly called Polainas, which, as your worship knows, cover the fore part of the leg and come down over the instep.— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
His fair locks, which the Russian was used to wash every morning, he was now bidden to bedaub with grease and flour, while he energetically cursed the black spatterdashes which it took him an hour to button every morning.— Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
O yes, he could make spatterdashes (leather riding gaiters), and play a little upon the fiddle.— The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
I recollected that it was a pair of mouse-brown spatterdashes for worthy old Mr Mooleypouch the meal-monger.— The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
When he snored, it was a whole cows 'leather spatterdashes. panful of fried beans.— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

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