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.
See also: leggings
- 1952  (1954)  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.