spatterdash

American  

[spat-er-dash] / ˈspæt ərˌdæʃ /

noun

1. a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.

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spatterdash British  

/ ˈspætəˌdæʃ /

noun

1. another name for roughcast

2. (plural) long leather leggings worn in the 18th century, as to protect from mud when riding

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Other Word Forms

• spatterdashed adjective

Etymology

Origin of spatterdash

First recorded in 1680–90; spatter + dash ¹

Example Sentences

On view were his latest works, featuring a spatterdash Homage to Meissonier, which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the members in Brasbridge's time was Mr. Hawkins, a worthy but ill-educated spatterdash maker, of Chancery Lane, who daily murdered the king's English.

From Project Gutenberg

His boots, to which he had been accustomed from his infancy, and which form a distinctive part of the national costume, were to be taken off, and to be substituted by the tight German spatterdash and the shoe, the one pinching the leg, and the other perpetually falling off the foot, wherever the march happened to be in the wet.

From Project Gutenberg

He carried a heavy cane in his right hand, and the right foot was enclosed in a sort of moccasin or spatterdash which might have belonged to one of the conductors on an avenue railroad, for use in very severe weather.

From Project Gutenberg

The Queen, chronicling the somewhat intimate and exclusive affair a week later, mentioned that: "Among those present was the lovely Lady Diana Guernsey wearing tweeds, leather spats, and waving a Directoire Banner embroidered with the popular device, 'Votes for Women,' in bright yellow and bottle green on an old rose ground;" and that she had far outdistanced the aged Marchioness of Dingledell, Lady Spatterdash, the Hon. Miss Mousely, the Duchess of Rolinstone, Baroness Mosscroppe, and others; and that, when last seen, she and the Earl of Marque were headed westward.

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