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gamash arch. and dial.|gəˈmæʃ|
Chiefly in pl. Forms: 6 sing. gamash, 6–7 pl. gamoshes, 7 gamaches, -chios, -shees, gammases, gama-, gammashoes, 8–9 gamashers, 8 gamogins, 9 gamashins (-ons), 6– gamashes.
[a. F. gamache (now only dial.) = It. gamascia, Pr. garamacha, galamacha; identified by Dozy with Sp. guadamaci, Pg. guadamecim (now obsolete), a kind of leather, believed to be a. Arab. ghadāmasī, f. the name of Ghadāmas in Tripoli, where a highly esteemed kind of leather was made.
In some of the forms the ending has evidently been assimilated to shoes.]
A kind of leggings or gaiters, worn to protect the legs from mud and wet.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 48 No French gowtie-leg with a gamash vpon it, is so gotchie and boystrous. 1607Marston What You Will i. ii, My velvet slippers, cloth-of-gold gamashes: where are my cloth of silver hose? 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 13/1 He beareth Argent, a Roman Hose of Stockin, Sable..of us they are called Buskins and Gamashes. 1781Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss., Gamashes, Gamogins, a sort of spatterdashes. 1826Scott Woodst. xxi, The leathern gamashes which defended his legs. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Gamashes, gaiters or leggings of cloth or leather; called also spatterdashes. |