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calshes, calisis, calsie, calshis noun plural trousers, breeches la19-. etymology: in Scots this has the following definition from the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (https://dsl.ac.uk) ‘a type of dress for boys; for younger boys a kind of slip-dress buttoned behind, forming jacket and trousers; for older boys it forms vest and trousers, a jacket is worn on top’; it seems to have been adopted by Tinkers to mean ‘trousers’ in the early twentieth century; obsolete in Modern Scots; however, see note from Grellmann below; also collected by EMcC/PS; also collected by Simson (1865); attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies and BS in TDITA; form calshis collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the form Kalʃchis ‘Breeches’ from Continental gipsies.

Attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) with the same meaning.