Wide, baggy breeches of the 17th century.
1 To-morrow I shall go and look for galligaskins .
2 I shall produce only one passage out of this poet, which is the misfortune of his galligaskins :
3 He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.
4 He goes on to relate how he is besieged by duns, and what a chasm there is in his " galligaskins . "
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.
6 At any rate our tarry Galligaskins soon had enough of it.
7 Now, I did not mind Lalor Maitland or Galligaskins when my blood was up.
8 The assailants were indeed rascals of the same tarry, broad-breeched, stringfasted breed as Galligaskins of the cellar door.
9 But Galligaskins himself I saw not.
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