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galligaskin|ˌgælɪˈgæskɪn|
Now chiefly in pl. Forms: 6 garragascoyne, 6–7 galli-, gally gascoi(g)n(e, -gascoyn(e, (6 galigascon, gallie gascoine, gallo-gascaine, 7 gallgaskin), 7–9 gally-gaskin, (9 galigaskin), 7– galligaskin.
[app. an interpretative corruption of the 16th c. F. garguesque, a metathetic var. of greguesque, ad. It. grechesca n., originally fem. of grechesco Greek (this kind of hose being in 16th c. described as alla grechesca = F. à la grecque in the Greek fashion). The surviving Fr. word in this sense is grègue, ad. Pr. grega or Sp. griega, orig. the fem. of the adj., Pr. grego, Sp. griego, Greek.
The form garragascoynes seems to prove that the Fr. word is really the source. The synonymous gally-breeches, gally-slops (see gally a.1 or n.) occur earlier than, and gasco(y)n, gaskin1, about the same time with, the present word. If they are really older, the perversion of garguesque into galligaskin is fully accounted for. They may, however, have originated in a false analysis of galligaskin, which in that case must have been corrupted from garguesque by the influence of Gascon and galley n. (less probably L. Galli-, Gallus, Gaul, or gally gallows n. in the sense ‘braces’). The early examples associate galligaskins with ‘shipmen's hose’, and imply that the fashion belonged to the south of Europe, so that it would be very natural for popular etymology to connect the word with galley.]
1. A kind of wide hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th c.; later, a more or less ludicrous term for loose breeches in general.
a. sing. Also attrib. in galligaskin breeches.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 1859/1 Galeygascoyne breeches all of Crimosyn satyn. 1592Def. Conny Catching (1859) 57 The venetian and the gallogascaine is stale, and trunke slop out of use. 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 27 Their hose sometimes Spanish, like to Shipmens hose, and sometimes close to the buttocke like the Venetian galligascoigne.
b. pl.
1577Harrison England ii. xxii. (1877) i. 343 A well-burnished gentleman..hath borne threescore at once in one paire of galigascons. 1581B. Rich Farewell Mil. Prof. Conclusion D d iij, In their Hoose so many fashions as I can not describe, sometymes Garragascoynes, breached like a Beare. 1620Shelton Quix. IV. xix. 149 He began to untruss his Points: the Opinion is that he had but one before, which held up his Gally-Gascoins. 1703J. Philips Splendid Shilling 121 My Galligaskins, that have long withstood The Winter's Fury. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxvii, His whole thoughts..were taken up with a transaction which was going forwards..within the precincts of his own Galligaskins. 1794in Poet. Reg. (1807) 401 While in Rhyme's Galligaskins I enclose The broad posteriors of thy brawny prose. 1801Sporting Mag. XVII. 19 His galligaskins have been made by the same needle-jerker. 1832Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 72 What jackets and galligaskins had they.
2. Leggings, gaiters. dial.
1859Trollope West Indies x. 150 He wears a huge pair..of galligaskins..made of thick stiff leather but so as to fit the leg exactly. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 43 Gossips too..put galligaskin off At entry of a decent domicile. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Gallygaskins, gaiters. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Galligaskins, rough leather over⁓alls, worn by thatchers, hedgers and labourers.
3. A variety of the cowslip (Primula veris).
1629Parkinson Paradisi xxxv. 245 There is another kinde [of cowslips] which doe somewhat resemble mens hose that they did weare and took the name of Galligaskins from thence.
appositive.1882Garden 28 Jan. 56/3 Can any information be obtained as to the origin of the Galigaskins Primrose?
Hence galliˈgaskined ppl. a., wearing galligaskins.
1854Walter Last of Old Squires xiii. 137 The good old man..with gun in hand from the paper-mill-cover, or galigaskined from the farm! |