sherryvallies

Meanings

nounsherryvallies pl (plural only)

historicalpluralplural onlyThick loose riding-trousers, fastened on the outside of each leg.
Many years ago, when the facilities for travelling were not as great as now, and when journeys were made on horseback, sherryvallies were indispensable to the traveller.
1860, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, Brown Little, published 1860, page 399

Also see

From Polish szarawary (cognate with Russian шаровары ‘wide trousers’), ultimately from Persian شلوار (šalvâr). Doublet of shalwars.

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