leggins

Example Sentences

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But she wore leggins of doe-skin, deeply fringed with pale green and cinctured in at her waist, where war-axe and knife hung on her left thigh, and powder horn and bullet pouch on her right.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

I didn't mind losing my leather leggins, saddle blankets, etc., so much as I did the old delapidated overcoat that contained a little silver-plated match box in one of the pockets.

From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.

They wore the simple dress of the hunter, which consisted of moccasins, and buckskin leggins reaching to the thighs.

From Three Sioux Scouts by Gregor, Elmer Russell

Moccasins of deerskin were in general use; also leggins, with the fur turned inward or outward according to the weather.

From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Here, we haven’t put on our leggins yet.”

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee