leggins

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They wore leggins of dressed antelope hide with scalp-locks fringing the seams, and prettily beaded moccasins for their feet.

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 Ralph, Julian

Breeches, leggins, and moccasins of deerskin and hats or caps of fur, often adorned with the animal's tail, completed the costume of the men.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham

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

The remaining parts of her figure exhibited their beautiful proportions neatly fitted with a pair of buck-skin leggins, extended and fringed on the seam with porcupine quills, copper and glass ornaments.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)

A pair of drawers or breeches and leggins, were the dress of the thighs and legs; a pair of moccasins answered for the feet much better than shoes.—These were made of dressed deer skin.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben