Galligaskins

pl. A sort of loose, wide breeches, formerly worn by the inhabitants of Gascony. Large open hose or slops, so called because the Vascones, the ancient inhabitants of that part of Spain called Navarre, used them as a covering for the lower extremities instead of the spatterdash, a kind of domestic greave in common wear among these people, when they sub sequently pa ed into France, and established themselves in Aquitaine, under the title of Gas coigns, or Gascons. Gallimatia, (gal-e-ma-she'aw,) n. [Fr. galimatias.] Talk without meaning; nonsense. (R.) Gallimaufry, n. [Fr. galimafrée, a hash composed of several different meats.] ( Cookery.) A hotch-potch, or hash of several sorts of broken meat.-A medley; a jumble. "Our English tongue is a gallimaufry of all other speeches." Spenser. -Any inconsistent or ridiculous mixture. "A dance which the wenches say, is a gallimaufry of gambols." Shaks.