leggins

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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 Eaton, Walter Prichard

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 Maximilian, Alexander Philipp

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 Madison, Lucy Foster

The little Quaker girl was dressed after the Indian fashion, "with short-clothes, leggins and a gold-laced hat"; while Benjamin, "as a badge of his dignity, wore a silver medal hanging from his neck."

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.

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 Eaton, Walter Prichard