gamache

From French gamache, from Spanish guademecí.

• IPA^(key): /ɡamasjə/, [ɡ̊aˈmaɕə]

gamache c (singular definite gamachen, plural indefinite gamacher)

1. leggings
2. spat, gaiter

Mostly used in plural.

• (leggings): leggings, (dated) gamachebukser pl

• gamache on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from Occitan gamacha, from Spanish guademecí, from Arabic غَدَامِسِيّ (ḡadāmisiyy, “related to the town of غَدَامِس (ḡadāmis) in Tripolitania”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.maʃ/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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gamache f (plural gamaches) (archaic)

1. spat, gaiter, legging

   Synonyms: houseau, guêtre

• → Belarusian: гама́ш (hamáš)
• → Czech: gamaše f pl
• → Danish: gamache
• → German: Gamasche
• → Russian: гама́ша (gamáša)
  • → Georgian: გამაში (gamaši)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: гама̀ша

  Latin script: gamàša

• → Slovene: gamaša
• → Ukrainian: гама́ша (hamáša)

• “gamache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.