gamashes

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)High boots or buskins.

   “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.”

2. (Scotland, plural, plural-only)Short spatterdashes, gaiters or jodhpurs, worn as an outer garment over other clothing.

   “Upon his legs he had gamashes, Which sogers ca' their spatterdashes”