galoshe
English
Alternative forms
- galoche, galosh
Etymology
From Middle English galoche, galache, galage (meaning shoe), from Old French galoche, perhaps altered from Latin gallica ( meaning a Gallic shoe),or from Late Latin calopedia (meaning wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole), from Ancient Greek diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “a shoemaker's last; wood + foot”).
Noun
galoshe (plural galoshes)
- (obsolete) A clog or patten.
- Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. - Chaucer.
- Hence, an overshoe worn in wet weather.
- A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Translations
overshoe worn in wet weather
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References
- galoshe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.