bigots

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The farmer who was issuing therefrom as I approached wore the shawl and Turkish trousers of the old generation, while his two sons, reaping in the adjoining wheat-fields, were hideous in the modern gigots.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

For all the "gigots" that ever appear at my host's entertainment, one might really think that the muttons of Africa were a peculiar species, a species without legs: crawling, maybe, on their bellies, like Nebuchadnezzar.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman

Will they drive them to market, and sell them for what they will fetch, or will they turn them into gigots and cotelettes?

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

“Il sait que les foulards de soieGive no retaliating whack—Les gigots morts n’ont pas de quoi—Le plomb don’t ever hit you back.”

From The Bab Ballads by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir