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- noun Plural form of
gaiter .
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Examples
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I have on at this moment a very neat thing in English gaiters, of respectable dimensions, toe-corners sharp as Damascus blade, three-fourths of an inch in sole, one and a half inches in heel, with a plenty of half-inch, cast-steel nails all round, -- quite a neat thing, I assure you.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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"The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; "let him take himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."
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"The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; "let him take himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The legs were protected by canvas leg covering called gaiters, which buttoned up the side and were form fitting.
French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The legs were protected by canvas leg covering called gaiters, which buttoned up the side and were form fitting.
Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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I suppose they must have been some garden party -- I distinctly recall the gaiters of a bishop and the coloured linings of more than one doctor's hood among them.
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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They also wear trail-specific items such as gaiters sock-like items designed to keep pebbles out of shoes.
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You may add, if you please, a few miscellaneous articles such as gaiters and extra bags, but never have I seen any man of Cho-sen walk about with more habiliments than these, although I have many times seen people who had a great deal less.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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It was the figure of a man in a leather garb, and wearing a kind of gaiters bound to the legs by strips of hide which went across and across from the instep to far above the knee.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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I had to wear a long-sleeved blouse with a colorfully embroidered thick cloth vest over it, plus a decorated headband and gaiters over my shoes.
Yoani Sanchez: Al Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go Yoani Sanchez 2010
chained_bear commented on the word gaiters
"a kind of spatterdashes or boots made with cloth, worn by soldiers." Also (archaically) spelled gaithers. In the 18th century, coverings of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg, usually worn by men. (i.e. not really boots)
February 13, 2007