Meaning of leggined | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of legginged.

alt-of, dated, not-comparable

Examples

“In the day-time, likewise, they must have⟳ remarked the in-rush from all country roads, of top-boot farmers, leggined horse-dealers, fresh and sweet country damsels, with their awkward smockfrock sweethearts, cheek by jowl, who now and then, perhaps, emboldened by a cup of ale, will seize their fair ones even in the street, and perforce implant a smacking kiss upon their turned-away and glowing cheeks.”

“Such was the morning, when an open⟳ carriage, in which were three Pickwickians, (Mr. Snodgrass having preferred to remain⟳ at home,) Mr. Wardle, and Mr. Trundle, with Sam Weller on the box beside the driver, pulled up by a gate at the road-side, before which stood a tall, raw-boned gamekeeper, and a half-booted, leather-leggined boy: each bearing a hag of capacious dimensions, and accompanied by a brace of pointers.[…]Here the leather-leggined boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look⟳ as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.”

“From First Federal, a stream of employees also start⟳ crossing North State, working their way up to the walk⟳ beside the Old Capitol, across by War Memorial with its World War I frieze of helmeted and leggined men, then around to the parking lot.”

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