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Galoshe

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Galoshe
    A clog or patten. "Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche ."
  2. Galoshe
    A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
  3. Galoshe
    An overshoe worn in wet weather, especially a waterproof rubber overshoe extending over the ankle, worn over one's regular shoes; now usually written galosh. It is used mostly in the plural.
  4. Galoshe
    Same as Galoche.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. galoche, galache, galage, shoe, F. galoche, galoche, perh. altered fr. L. gallica, a Gallic shoe, or fr. LL. calopedia, wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole, Gr. , dim. of , , a shoemaker's last; wood + foot

Usage in the news

Goodrich was making new rubber galoshes under the name the "Mystik Boot" and its marketing department wanted to add a little " zip " to its newfangled fastener. csmonitor.com

In brewpubs around the city, patrons can sip the wares in close proximity to giant vats of beer while brewmasters stomp around in galoshes carrying out their work. opb.org

I never know if I'll need new Easter shoes or new Easter galoshes. millelacscountytimes.com

There are computer users who believe that to access their Cloud-based data they need galoshes and an umbrella . kezj.com

Usage in literature

A hood is over her head, a respirator in her mouth, and galoshes on her feet. "The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan" by William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Care vanished, and with her the Galoshes. "Andersen's Fairy Tales" by Hans Christian Andersen

She slopped along in the great galoshes, her back to the lighted house now, her face to the dark barns. "The Good Comrade" by Una L. Silberrad

But I detest putting on my heavy Russian galoshes, and my big cloak; and I never do either when I can possibly avoid it. "Russian Rambles" by Isabel F. Hapgood

His trousers were turned up, and his feet, wisely, for the streets were wet and slimy, encased in neat galoshes. "Franklin Kane" by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

You breakfast in the dining room, and in the winter you wear flannel underwear and galoshes. "Gigolo" by Edna Ferber

Road's awash, meadders is flooded, an' the water's a-swashin' an' a-sloshin' in them there galoshes. "A Young Man in a Hurry" by Robert W. Chambers

Whose galoshes are these, I should like to know, all muddy and covered with gravel? "The Leader of the Lower School" by Angela Brazil

But it was the galoshes of Manhattan that saved his feet from freezing. "The Crimson Tide" by Robert W. Chambers

Would you like to see Galoshes? "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Usage in poetry
Autumn, not winter coat,
Hat-none, galoshes-none.
You struggle with excitement
Out there all on your own.
For me in my timber arbour
You have one more message yet,
"Plimsolls, plimsolls in the summer,
Oh galoshes in the wet!"