Spatterdashes
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spatterdashes is a noun meaning Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
Meaning
Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
Example Sentences
[W]’i my firelock, and my bagnet, and my spatterdashes […] I was a pretty sight in my soldiering days.
Over the winter-solid Roads, goes a great seething,— of mounted younger Gentlemen riding together by the dozens upon rented horses, Express Messengers in love with pure Velocity, Disgruntl'd Suitors with Pistols stuff'd in their Spatterdashes, seal'd Waggons not even a western Black-Boy would think of detaining.
Word Forms
- spatterdash
- spatterdashers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gramashes, galosh, gaiter, mudguard, gambado, gamashes.
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