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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

[Prob. corrupted fr. It.

Grechesco

Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have been afterwards confused with

Gascony

, as if they came from Gascony.]

Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.

Noun.

Large open hose; used only in ludicrous language.

galligaskins pl ‎(plural only)

(archaic) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
  He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather.

shalwar — see shalwar