leggins

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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

He was attired with a red flannel "wamus," a leathern belt girt around his waist, deer-skin leggins and moccasons, and a white felt hat that ran up to a peak.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.

The well-beloved rifle was seldom out of his hand; and he never deigned to lay aside the fringed frock, moccasons, and Indian leggins, which formed the appropriate costume of the forest ranger.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

Moccasins of deerskin were in general use; also leggins, with the fur turned inward or outward according to the weather.

From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

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