Galligaskins
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This section is from the "A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods" book, by George S. Cole. Also available from Amazon: A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances,: Including a full explanation of the modern processes ... together with various useful tables.
Galligaskins
Galligaskins (Gal-I-Gas'-Kins). Leather guards worn on the legs by sportsmen and equestrians. Formerly, in the 16th century the term was applied to a fashion of trunk hose, also called gregs, Venetians and gas-kins.
"Every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the good frou of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey-woolsey galligaskins" - Irving, Knickerbocker. p. 175.
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