beleggined

The strapping blueshirted and beleggined soldiers of the Twenty-third were busy arranging to make fast for the night, while a crowd of men and boys, with an occasional member of the fair sex, gathered around and watched with curious eyes the actions of the sure enough soldiery.

1898 April 19, “First on the Grounds. Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment, Arrives. They Take Up Their Quarters at Fair Grounds. […]”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXV, number 14,923, New Orleans, La., page 3, column 2

Just as the Oregon regiment was coming into line on the parade ground last evening and while recruits and regulars made up a good half of the crowd that blocked the roadway the fire call came sharply from the guardhouse and there was a rapid scamper of every beleggined and blue-coated spectator to his place in fire quarters.

1899 July 22, “Crowds out to See the Oregon Men on Parade. A Military Event at the Presidio. […]”, in The San Francisco Call, volume LXXXVI, number 52, San Francisco, Calif., page 7

Were some of the short-skirted and beleggined beauties of the Boulevard to appear here in all their glory there would be grave danger of a revolution simply by reason of the general cerebral inflammation which would thereby be caused.

1900 February 18, “Bicycle Boom in Cuba. Havana Taking to the Sport Now with Enthusiasm. Why Cubans Should Wheel. […]”, in The Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., page 16, column 2

I am satisfied that had he seen the motley beleggined crowd that rode through the streets of Modesto on Friday noon and had observed the determined look on the faces of all, he would have at once conceded that “something was up.”

1900 March 28, “Trip to Mt. Hamilton. Observations of a High School Student.”, in Daily Evening News, volume XXXI, number 99, Modesto, Calif., column 2

Four beleggined kahki-clad pedestrains, leading a burro, passed through our valley the first of the week, and as they couldn’t give an intelligent answer as to their whereabouts, were supposed to be electrical engineers, running out a line from Valley Center to Loma Alta.

1906 June 1, “Moosa”, in Escondido Times, volume XX, number 32, Escondido, Calif., page 3, column 3