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Meanings of galligaskins in English

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Wide, baggy breeches of the 17th century.

        Usage of galligaskins in English
        1
        To-morrow I shall go and look for galligaskins.
        Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
        2
        I shall produce only one passage out of this poet, which is the misfortune of his galligaskins:
        Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
        3
        He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.
        The White Company
        4
        He goes on to relate how he is besieged by duns, and what a chasm there is in his "galligaskins."
        History of English Humour, Vol. 2
        5
        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
        6
        At any rate our tarry Galligaskins soon had enough of it.
        The Dew of Their Youth
        7
        Now, I did not mind Lalor Maitland or Galligaskins when my blood was up.
        The Dew of Their Youth
        8
        The assailants were indeed rascals of the same tarry, broad-breeched, stringfasted breed as Galligaskins of the cellar door.
        The Dew of Their Youth
        9
        But Galligaskins himself I saw not.
        The Dew of Their Youth
        Frequent collocations
        Galligaskins through the time