leggins
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Two men with leggins laced up to their sturdy knees, and carrying guns and game bags, were striding across the field, followed by their dogs.
From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins
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
The outer seam 389 of the leggins, as among all the other tribes, has an embroidered stripe of coloured porcupine quills, and trimmed in the same manner with human or dyed horsehair.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
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
Their shoes are sewed to their leggins, and decorated on every seam.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie
