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  • adjective Wearing leggings.

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Examples

  • Here the leather – legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • A well-meaning bystander, yellow-legginged and purple-faced, said hoarsely over his red comforter, as she rose to her feet, that she

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • These, the soldiers, wore long blue tunics over legginged breeches and berylbum-copper chain mail, spiked helmets, curved swords at the right side.

    Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

  • There was a chauffeur at the wheel -- no Chinaman, but a tightly-buttoned and black-legginged young Englishman -- in fact, the real thing in chauffeurs.

    Number Seventeen 1915

  • Ropes was in his seat, coated and legginged once more in leather, and so well goggled that there was no reason why he should be associated in any mind with that Mr. George Smith who had threatened to air his wrongs in

    The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

  • I entered the King's Arms meekly, and before I knew what I was doing I had been presented to three or four solid-thighed, thick-headed, stout-legginged farmers as "Our Lottie's intended."

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • A well-meaning bystander, yellow-legginged and purple-faced, said hoarsely over his red comforter, as she rose to her feet, that she

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.

    The Pickwick papers 1836

  • First comes a velveteen-jacketed, leather-legginged keeper, with whom Tom (albeit suspicious of his honesty) thinks it prudent to shake hands; the miller and he, too, greet; and forthwith a black bottle with a single glass make their appearance, and pass current with the company.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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