gigot

noun

1. A leg of lamb or mutton.

   “Then is the hoſtie ſlaine and flayde, and part on gridorne put, / The liuer and lights they comely ſéeth and euery little gut. / The gigots and the other fleſh in péeces they did ſpit, / Which roſt, tipling the pleaſaunt wine they downe to table ſit.”

   “Guard, Treaſon, treaſon, treaſon. / Boatſ[wain]. Cut the ſlaevs to giggets.”

   “Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt first, as Chine of Beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.”

   “[A] Countryman came to intreat the Honour of him to go take a Repaſt at his House; Timur Sultan accepting of the Invitation, the Peaſant in order to treat him the better killed a fat Sheep, and at his Departure made him a Present of a good Gigot which was left.”

   “You muſt have Hind-Quarters very large, and cut Jigget Faſhion, that is a Piece of Loin with it; […]”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”).

   “Of these circumambulatory ells of crape, the young artificer contrived to fabricate a dress that was anything but unbecoming. The enormous crape gigots (for those were the days of gigots), which made part of her black treasure, hung from her delicate fair arms like transparent clouds upon the silvery brightness of the moon ....”

   “A coat and trousers of light lilac cloth, the former with an immense black velvet collar and sleeves so full at the shoulder that they resembled gigots, the latter made tight, fearfully tight, to the knees, but bagging gradually to the insteps, where they fell over patent leather boots;[…]”