gramashes

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noun

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.

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Meanings

noungramashes pl (normally plural, singular gramash)

singular gramash

  1. pluralplural normallyGaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.

    But the form was indisputable — Douce David Deans himself, in his best light-blue Sunday's coat, with broad metal-buttons, and waistcoat and breeches of the same, his strong gramashes or leggings of thick grey cloth

    1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

Origin

See gamashes.

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APA

gramashes. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gramashes

MLA

“gramashes.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gramashes. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gramashes,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gramashes.

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