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  • noun plural Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

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  • noun Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

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Examples

  • As I wish to describe these persons as accurately as possible, I may add, he wore a dark-coloured coat, corduroy breeches, and spatterdashes.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Having knocked at the gate, and then pissed, as most men will do, the porter soon found him out, by his large greasy spatterdashes, his jaded hollow-flanked mare, his bagful of writs and informations dangling at his girdle, but, above all, by the large silver hoop on his left thumb.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Having knocked at the gate, and then pissed, as most men will do, the porter soon found him out, by his large greasy spatterdashes, his jaded hollow-flanked mare, his bagful of writs and informations dangling at his girdle, but, above all, by the large silver hoop on his left thumb.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Captain Sinclair actually waddled out of his roundhouse to converse politely with the Governor while the convicts were lined up on deck under the eyes of the marines on duty, eyes bloodshot and breath reeking, but leather stocks and spatterdashes perfect.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • So woe betide the marine whose choking black leather stock was not properly fastened around his neck or whose knee-length black leather spatterdashes were not properly buttoned.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Captain Sinclair actually waddled out of his roundhouse to converse politely with the Governor while the convicts were lined up on deck under the eyes of the marines on duty, eyes bloodshot and breath reeking, but leather stocks and spatterdashes perfect.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • So woe betide the marine whose choking black leather stock was not properly fastened around his neck or whose knee-length black leather spatterdashes were not properly buttoned.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • She came out on the porch now, to help her father on with his coat, and to tie his spatterdashes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

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