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chaps

/t͡ʃæps/ noun B2
  1. Protective leather leggings attached at the waist. · If you are going to use that chainsaw, why don't you put on a pair of chaps?· Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.
  2. The shaggy hair on male aoudads (barbary sheep) that extends from the throat and chest sometimes covering each leg.
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I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels—chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.
The Valley of Fear, p. 16 · C1

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