Usually means: Loose, wide breeches or trousers.
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  1. galligaskins: Merriam-Webster
  2. galligaskins: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. galligaskins: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. galligaskins: Collins English Dictionary
  5. galligaskins: Wordnik
  6. galligaskins: Wiktionary
  7. galligaskins: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. galligaskins: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Galligaskins, galligaskins: Dictionary.com
  10. Galligaskins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Galligaskins: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. galligaskins: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Galligaskins: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. galligaskins: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. galligaskins: FreeDictionary.org
  16. galligaskins: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Galligaskins: World Wide Words

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  1. galligaskins: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  (archaic, historical) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Similar:
Venetian, smallclothes, gambeson, gilet, braies, gambado, sack, gardcorps, sack-back, galosh, more...

Opposite:
plain, simple, unadorned

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Similar:
Venetian, smallclothes, gambeson, gilet, braies, gambado, sack, gardcorps, sack-back, galosh, more...

Opposite:
plain, simple, unadorned



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