leggins

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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

Their leggins come half way up the thigh, and are sewed to their shoes: they are embroidered round the ancle, and upon every seam.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

In mild weather their costume was formed of a blue striped cotton shirt, corduroys, blue cloth leggins bound with orange ribbons, the inevitable sash or worsted belt, and moccasins.

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

She caught one glimpse of a mass of glossy hair floating on the wind, and scarlet leggins hanging in shreds around those flying feet.

From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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