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sherryvallies, n. pl. U.S.|ʃɛrɪˈvælɪz|
Also 9 shorrevals, sherrivalleys.
[The proximate history is obscure, but the word must be an adoption of some one of the many forms of a widely diffused word of oriental origin, signifying a kind of trousers: cf. Arab. sirwāl, now commonly sharwāl (pl. sarāwīl, sharāwīl), whence Sp. zaragüelles pl., Pg. ceroulas pl.), Russian sharavary, Polish szarawary, Gr. σαράβαρα, late and med.L. sarabara, saraballa, sarabala, saravara, etc. (see Du Cange), Syriac sharbålå; the ultimate source is by some scholars supposed to be the Persian shalwār (see shalwar) of the same meaning. The Biblical Aramaic sarbālīn pl., which in Dan. iii. 21, 27 is rendered by the like-sounding words in Syr., Gr., and Latin, has been regarded as identical (Eng. Bible 1611 ‘coats’, margin ‘mantles’, 1884 Revised ‘hosen’), but this is very doubtful.
Our first quot. might suggest Polish as the probable proximate source for the U.S. word. Gen. C. Lee had been aide-de-camp to the king of Poland.]
(See quot. 1848.)
1778Gen. C. Lee Let. 20 Dec. in Mem. (1792) 430 If you find them to be green breeches patched with leather, and not actually legitimate sherry vallies, such as his Majesty of Poland wears,..I will submit in silence to all the scurrility which [etc.]. 1825Springfield Tailor's advt. in Alice M. Earle Costume Colon. Times (1894) 217 Shorrevals and Overalls And Pantaloons he'll make. 1833C. F. Hoffman Winter in Far West (1835) I. 105 Raising his blue cotton frock to thrust his hand into the fob of his sherrivalleys. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer., Sherryvallies, pantaloons made of thick velvet or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn over other pantaloons. They are now chiefly worn by teamsters. Many years ago, when..journeys were made on horseback, sherryvallies were indispensable to the traveller. |