Usage examples for gaiters:

• I love you in your gaiters better than I ever loved you before. "In the Wilderness" – Robert Hichens

• His Grace tapped the gaiters with the slight ebony cane he held in his hand. "T. Tembarom" – Frances Hodgson Burnett

• On arriving at the Tuileries one of the party put his gaiters into his pocket. "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton