DCHP-3

Indian leggings

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pair of coverings for the legs, usually made of dressed skins and often reaching from ankles to hips, where they are fastened to a belt, originally used by the Indians.

Quotations

1952
I noticed he wore, like Cuthbert Grant and Bostonnais Pangman, Indian leggings,--pants, without a seat and only a broad loincloth dangling fore and aft to cover his intimates. Not to put too fine a point upon it--like his comrades', his arse hung out with painful immodesty.