Definition of "galligaskins" [gal•li•gas•kins]

• Loosely fitting hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. (noun-plural)
• Loose trousers. (noun-plural)
• Chiefly British Leggings. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "“Gown and galligaskins!” responded the Refectioner."
• "Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins — I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged."
• "He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather."