Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gamashes

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gamash-es
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

High boots or buskins.

noun

Short spatterdashes, gaiters or jodhpurs, worn as an outer garment over other clothing.

Example Sentences

"By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man."
"In the warmest corner of all, his face aglow with firelight and good liquor, sat Master Pothier dit Robin, with his gown tucked up to his waist as he toasted his legs and old gamashes in the genial warmth of a bright fire."
"Upon his legs he had gamashes, Which sogers ca' their spatterdashes"

Etymology

French gamaches.

Inflected Forms

gramashes (alternative)

Questions

What does gamashes mean?: High boots or buskins.
Where does gamashes come from?: French gamaches.

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