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chaps, n. pl.|ʃæps, tʃ-|
Short for chaparreras.
1884E. W. Nye Baled Hay 139 ‘Chaps’, as they are vulgarly called,..are made of leather with fronts of dogskin with the hair on. 1884W. Shepherd Prairie Exper. 41 The cow-boys, with their schaps, i.e. leather-leggings. 1930E. Ferber Cimarron xii. 195 He [sc. the cowboy] wears chaps, with the hairy side out, to keep his legs warm in winter and to protect them from being torn by chaparral and cactus thorns in summer. |