galligaskins

galligaskins pl (plural only)

1. (archaic) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:

     He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather.

• gaskin