"brass ankle" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1937, Richardson Little Wright, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, →OCLC, →OL, Maroon Fun, page 232:",
          "text": "Moreover, the Maroons also practiced the diversions of polygamy. Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston. The men were tall and handsome and well made, and had a wild eye.",
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