Leggins and moccasins are painted; a plait of twisted grass is worn round the neck.
The women crop the hair short, and a long shirt made of deer-skin, which extends from the neck to below the knees, with leggins and moccasins, are their usual attire.
The feet are protected by neat moccasins of deer-skin or woolen stuff, surmounted by leggins of the same material.
They smear their leggins and hair with red ochre and grease.
Puttees, the spirally wound legginsthat had long been used by the British Army, were unknown articles to American manufacture when the American Expeditionary Forces adopted them as standard articles of equipment.
Yet while the olive-drab dye used in dyeing coats and trousers seemed to withstand the sun and rain, that used in coloring the leggins proved to be fugitive to a remarkable degree.
A small but handsome bracelet encircled his left wrist, and the fringes of his leggins were of varied and brilliant hues, as were the beaded moccasins that incased his shapely feet.
Below the belt was breechcloth, followed by leggins and moccasins, but it was noticeable that he carried no rifle with him.
The usual breechcloth, leggins and moccasins completed his dress.
My rapped leggins began to shrink an the cavs of my legs hurt something awful.
I cant say much in favor of the rapped legginstho for a fello that never had any experience with first aid or nothin.
They also gave their soiled leggins a much-needed scrubbing.
By the time the leggins had become presentable again, their wash was partially dry.
Laden with these, an extra uniform blouse, and a pair of clean leggins apiece, they raced across the fields to the creek, and were soon jubilantly swimming about in its clear, but very cold water.
If the leggins are allowed to dry without being rung out, they will look better.
Those who come to admire his handsome beaded jacket and long fringed leggins soon go away sick and tired of his vain, vain words and heartless laughter.
He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet.
He had a buffalo overcoat with a head hood for emergencies, with fur leggins and foot moccasins.
Their legends say, "Rabbit Skin Leggins shouted when far off, 'A man will be sent with the book.
His deer-skin leggins were fringed with the red-stained hair of some wild animal, and his neat moccasons were adorned in the extreme of savage fashion.
Some of them wore frocks of buckskin, and leggins of bright-colored cloth, ornamented with strings of wampum, tin trinkets and glass beads, that jingled with every motion of the wearer.
The men and women were not clothed in our fashion, the former having short pantaloons fastened below the waist with a red belt and buck skin leggins put on three or four times double.
He then presented my father a pair of leggins and a pipe, both neatly decorated with porcupine quills; and accompanied by his child, withdrew to his tent, for the night.
He wore, besides, a shirt, long, fringed buckskin leggins and beaded moccasins.
A picturesque figure he must have been, clad in full buckskin leggins and shirt with a blanket wrapped around him.
It rose and showed the bowered homes of Kaskaskia, the tavern at an angle of the streets, with two Indians, in leggins and hunting-shirts, standing on the gallery as emotionless spectators.
The leggins were of finely dressed deer-skin, worked with the porcupine quills, fringed with the scalp-locks, and fitting tightly from moccasins to thighs.
He wore hide leggins and moccasins; a long blue shirt, a brocade vest, an overcoat instead of a blanket, and a turban studded with two hundred silver brooches.
Rabbit-skin Leggins and No-horns-on-his-head were homesick for their country beyond the mountains.
Gone were his fringed and quilled goat-skin leggins and shirt; gone his war bonnet and painted robe and handsome moccasins, his bow and quiver and shield.
Their dress is a gown, made without sleeves, and very scanty in the skirt, of coarse blue or green cloth; it reaches down to a little under the knee, below which their limbs are cased in leggins beautifully ornamented.
These leggins are sometimes very tastefully decorated with bead-work, particularly those of the women, and are provided with flaps or wings on either side.
Then a pair of blue cloth leggins were hauled over his trousers, partly to keep the snow from sticking to them, and partly for warmth.
The ladies had short gowns without plaits, cloth leggins of various colours highly ornamented with beads, cotton handkerchiefs on their necks, and sometimes also on their heads.
When he can procure {311} it, the young warrior is wont to wear a mantle and leggins of strouding.
They wear moccasins, to which short legginsare attached, and which constitute a sort of leathern hose.
You'll want to wear your heaviest shoes and leggins on the sleigh-ride party and your oldest, warmest clothes.
At last Geraldine stood arrayed in the first pair of heavy shoes and leggins she had ever worn.
Say, but you missed the time of your young life," Peggy Pierce informed her as the girls removed their overshoes and leggins in the storm vestibule.
One pair of strong, snug, well-fitting leggins matching camp dress in color, with no buttons or buckles to tangle on underbrush.
In a region where poisonous snakes abound it is well to wear khaki leggins as a protection in case you inadvertently step too near and anger the creatures, for in such cases they sometimes strike before you have time to beat a retreat.
When the boss ain't about he leaves his leggins in camp, He swears a man who wears them is worse than a tramp.
Now to win these fancy leggins I'll have enough to do; They cost me twenty dollars The day that they were new.
He had noticed every detail of their clothing, from their expensive leather leggins to their fur-lined gloves.
They were handsome, sturdy little fellows, so well buttoned up in their leather leggins and warm reefer overcoats that they scarcely felt the cold.
His dress consisted of buckskin coat and pants, with leggins coming up to his knees, and in which he carried, in true Mexican style, his Machete or long two-edged knife.
Young Indian girls, of graceful form, looked very attractive in their picturesque attire of fringed buskined leggins and glittering beads.
Deer skins were softly tanned and colored for clothing, with ornamental fringes for coats and leggins and moccasins.
Benjie, and could not have shaped a pair of leggins though we had offered him the crown of the three kingdoms.
Mayn't I go out without my leggins if I stay in my own yard?
And by afternoon the woods seemed to have turned red, there were so many pairs of scarlet leggins twinkling almost anywhere you looked.
None but a green one would wish to kill a doe with a fa’n by its side, unless his moccasins were getting old, or his leggins ragged, for the flesh is lean and coarse.
The snake bite Helen had got early in the summer had been a lesson learned in time and now all the campers were made to comply with the rule of leggins whenever they went on hikes.
The first rule was that they must wear thick boots and legginson these tramps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leggins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
