英:[ˌgælɪ'gæskɪnz]
美:[ˌgælɪ'gæskɪnz]
英:[ˌgælɪ'gæskɪnz]
美:[ˌgælɪ'gæskɪnz]
plural noun
loose wide hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries
very loose trousers
dialectal, chiefly British leggings
earlier also garragascoynes, perhaps reshaping (after gascon) of Middle French garguesques, greguesques (also chausses à la gregesque "leggings in the gregesque style"), borrowed from Spanish gregüescos, plural of gregüesco, probably for *greguesco, from griego "Greek" (going back to Latin Graecus) + -esco -esque — more at greek >entry 1
The first known use of galligaskins was in 1577