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gaiters

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Gaiters are covers strapped over boots to keep mud and snow out. Fit your gaiters.

They also keep the bottom of your trousers dry, which is half of why anybody wears them. Gaiters look absurd and are the difference between wet feet and dry ones.

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Definitions of gaiters

  1. 1noungaitersCovers strapped over boots to keep mud and snow out.C1

    “The gaiters were black to the knee after one bog.”

gaiters is clothing.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Germanic

    *wastijō — garment; dress

  2. Frankish

    *wastiju

  3. Old French

    *gueste

  4. Middle French

    guiestres

  5. French

    guêtre

  6. English

    gaiter

  7. English, today

    gaiters

gaiter Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes, from Old French gueste, from Frankish wastiju, from Proto-Germanic wastijō (“garment; dress”). Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (“garment; dress”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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gaiters in the wild

  • Spats (a shortening of spatterdashes), spatter guards or half gaiters, a type of footwear accessory for outdoor wear, cover the instep and the ankle.

    Spats (footwear)

  • Spats are distinct from gaiters, which are garments worn over the lower trouser-leg as well as over the shoe.

    Spats (footwear)

  • Originally, gaiters were made of leather or canvas.

    Gaiters

  • Common materials for leg gaiters on the market are canvas, nylon, Cordura, Kevlar, and leather.

    Gaiters

  • Like gaiters for the lower legs, a neck gaiter augments the protection offered by other garments.

    Neck gaiter

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.