leggins

Example Sentences

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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 cousin was a good-looking young man with blue eyes and light hair, very picturesque in a brand new hunting suit, leggins and all.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

But she wore leggins of doe-skin, deeply fringed with pale green and cinctured in at her waist, where war-axe and knife hung on her left thigh, and powder horn and bullet pouch on her right.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Watkins, Shirley

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