galligaskins

English

Noun

galligaskins pl (plural only)

1. (archaic, historical) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 64–65:

     He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather.

Related terms

• gaskin

Translations

shalwar — see shalwar