Brewer's: Gallia Braccata

[trousered Gaul]. Gallia Narbonensis was so called from the “braccæ”' or trousers which the natives wore in common with the Scythians and Persians.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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