pl.n.
- Loosely fitting hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Loose trousers.
- Chiefly British. Leggings.
[Perhaps alteration (influenced by GALLEYGASCON) of French garguesques, variant of greguesques, from Spanish gregüescos, from griego, Greek, from Latin Graecus. See Greek.]
