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gramashes

gramashes noun: gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.

Noun

gramashes pl (normally plural, singular gramash)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Gaiters 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 cloth1818 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...

Forms of gramashes

singulargramash

Origin of gramashes

See gamashes.

Questions about gramashes

What does gramashes mean?
Gramashes means gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.
What part of speech is gramashes?
Gramashes is a noun.

Words near gramashes in the dictionary

  1. Graman
  2. gramary
  3. gramarye
  4. gramas
  5. gramash
  6. gramashes
  7. gramatically
  8. Grambau
  9. Grambow
  10. grame
  11. gramed

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