leggins
Example Sentences
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She unloosened the shoe of the maiden as she spoke and removed the silken leggins, marveling much at their richness as she did so.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Their leggins are long, and, if they were topped with a waistband, might be called trowsers: they, as well as their shoes, are made of dressed moose, elk, or rein-deer skin.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie
They took their scout suits, of course, with leggins, and their heaviest high boots.
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Walter Prichard Eaton
The girls had regular riding breeches and leather leggins, like a man’s, and the boy had khaki riding breeches and high boots.
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Walter Prichard Eaton
In mild weather their costume was formed of a blue striped cotton shirt, corduroys, blue cloth leggins bound with orange ribbons, the inevitable sash or worsted belt, and moccasins.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
