be-leggined

What made this youth remarkable was that he was clad in all the pomp and glory of war, he was be-spurred, be-campaigned hatted, be-leggined, and be-sabred, and be-trussed like any old swashbuckler out of Old Whitechapel.

1903 May 30, “The National Guard”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XXIII, number 130, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 7, column 2

I grabbed one of her be-leggined ankles and yanked her to the ground and glared savagely as she would have opened her mouth to scream.

1925, Hugh Pendexter, “The Wife-Ship Woman”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 73, number 18, Victoria, B.C., published 23 July 1928, page 7

The two and three-year-olds, who come at nine o’clock, arrive be-leggined and be-muffled, and the teachers have become adept at manipulating zippers.

1932 March 13, “Youngsters Like to Learn Under New School Methods. Five-Year-Olds Start Music, Babies Begin French at Flatbush Montessori Institution.”, in The Brooklyn Daily Times; The Standard Union, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 10A, column 5

Thersites, who is a sort of one-man chorus for Shakespeare in his barbed commentary on war, lechery and assorted follies of man, shows up in the person of John Neville as a be-leggined, Norfolk-jacketed combination of early war correspondent and photographer.

1956 December 31, “‘Troilus and Cressida’ Given Farce Treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXVI, page 7