shaps

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: Shortened fr. chaparajos. Cf. Chaps.

Chaparajos. Western U. S.

A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins.— The Century Illust. Monthly Mag.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement