English
gamashes
Gamashes comes from French gamaches.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgamaches
- Englishearliest quotation 1546gamashes
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgamaches
- Englishearliest quotation 1546gamashes
Earliest quotation: 1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book: “By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes,…”
The story
French gamaches.
Every English word from French gamaches
Today it means
noun High boots or buskins.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gamaches / gamashes