gamashes

English

Etymology

French gamaches.

Noun

gamashes pl (plural only)

1. High boots or buskins.
2. (Scotland) Short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gamashes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)