leggings

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Commonly written and pronounced leggins.) Indian gaiters; also worn by the white hunters and trappers of the West.


How piquantly do these trim and beaded leggings peep from under that simple dress of black, as its tall nut-brown wearer moves through the graceful mazes of the dance.--Hoffman, Winter in the West, p. 239.