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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