gambadoes

His legs were defended with strong leathern gambadoes, which, according to an antiquarian contrivance, opened at the sides, and were secured by steel clasps.

The Monastery 2008

No: he puts on his most vainqueur look, he sticks his thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat, and advances, retreats, pirouettes, and otherwise gambadoes, as though to say,

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps.

Waverley 2004

By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.

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

By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.

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

I'll be bound, now, that our Dick and his little cousin Cicely are at this moment getting the steps of the gavotte or the other gambadoes that have come to us from France and

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps.

The Waverley 1877

Methinks I now see his tall, thin, emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped gambadoes, and his face of

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801