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▪ I. galosh, golosh, n.|gəˈlɒʃ|
Forms: 4–9 galoche, 5–8 galloche, 5 galoch, galoge, galache, 5–7 gal(l)age, galeg(g)e, 7 galatch, galeach, galoach, golosse (? golossian), pl. galloshios, gala-, gal(l)oshoes, -shoos, (goloschooes, colloshoo's), 7–8 pl. goloshoes (rarely sing. goloshoe), 9 goloe-shoes, 7–8 gallosh, 7– galosh, 9 golosh, (calash, colosh).
[a. F. galoche fem.:—(according to Hatz.-Darm.) popular L. *galopia f. *galopus, a. Gr. κᾱλόπους (stem -ποδ-) shoemaker's last (whence dim. καλοπόδιον), f. κᾶλον wood (only pl. logs) + πούς foot. In med.L. galopedium occurs for ‘wooden shoe’; see also calopedes in Du Cange. The Sp. galocha, It. galoscia, are prob. adopted from Fr. Some forms of the Eng. word show assimilation to shoe.]
1. a. In early use: A wooden shoe or sandal fastened to the foot with thongs of leather; a rustic patten or clog; a shoe with a wooden sole and an upper of leather or other soft material. The name seems to have been variously applied, and in the earliest quots. may be a general term for a boot or shoe. b. In later use: An over-shoe (now usually made of india-rubber) worn to protect the ordinary shoe from wet or dirt. ‘Rare in U.S.’ (Cent. Dict.).
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 14 As is þe kynde of a knyȝte þat cometh to be dubbed, To geten hem gylte spores or galoches ycouped. c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 10868 Ne were worthy to unbokel his galoche. c1440Promp. Parv. 184/2 Galache, or galoche, vndyr solynge of mannys fote..crepitum. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) 38/1 They wente not alwaye fully barefote, but somtyme with galoches, a sole byneth and a fastnynge aboue the fote. 1523Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, c. 9 Any showes, bootes, or galeges. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 17 A Shooe called a Gallage or Patten, whiche hath nothing on the feete but onely Latchettes. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 244 My galage [is] growne fast to my heele. Gloss., Galage, a start-uppe or clownish shoe. 1606Heywood Challenge i. i. (1636) 10 Some slovenly Boote, to be dabled in the durt without a Galoach. 1607–8Wardr. Bk. Pr. Henry in Archæol. XI. 93 Sixteen gold buckles..to buckle a pair of golosses with gold, ls. 1646in Archæol. Cantiana (1883) XV. 162 For a pa. of boots with goloschooes 00 . 16 . 00. 1649W. M. Wandering Jew (1857) 16 By his slash'd doublet, high galloshes, and Italian purld band [hee should be] a Frenchman. 1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 16 He had Gloves perfum'd, his Colloshoo's of Velvet. 1665Pepys Diary 15 Nov., My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spick and span white shoes, she dropped one of her galoshes in the dirt. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 15 'Tis but despising a Coach, humbling yourself To a pair of Goloshoes. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 14/2 Galloshios are false shooes, or covers for shooes. 1713Kennett Romæ Antiq. Notit. (ed. 5) 325 The sole was of wood like our old galoches, or the sabots of the French peasants. 1737Ozell Rabelais II. 219 Galloches, high wooden Pattins or Clogs... It also means a Sort of Slipper worn over the Shoes. 1779Jos. Burton Patent Specif. No. 1210 Improvements in women's clogs by a goloshoe or clog of an entire new make. 1823Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 251, I walk to and fro with a great⁓coat, galoches, and a huge hairy cap. 1850Mechanics' Mag. LII. 69, I have found the india-rubber goloshes invaluable. 1856R. Gardiner Handbk. of Foot 54 The india-rubber and gutta-percha colosh. a1863Thackeray Sketches, Lady in Opera-Box, Can I come in goloshes, and take them off in the ante-chamber? 1870Brough Marston Lynch ii. 11 She had trudged down the road through the snow..in a hood and goloshes. 1872–6Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3) 167 Leather goloshes are large, loose, untanned leather boots..intended to be worn in magazines, powder-houses [etc.]..and are made..to cover the ordinary shoe or boot. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs II. 332 Being either obliged to remove my boots, or being supplied with large slippers to put over them like galoshes.
†c. Dutch galoshes: skates. ? nonce-use.
a1687Cotton Gt. Frost, Poems (1689) 104 And had [I] but Dutch goloshoes on, At one run I would slide to Lon―.
2. A piece of leather or other material running round the lower part of a boot or shoe above the sole (sometimes as an additional covering or edging).
1853Boot & Shoe-maker's Assist. 22 To cut a calash for a side-laced..boot. 1856R. Gardiner Handbk. of Foot 49 The best position for this seam, whether it pertains to an Adelaide-front or a colosh. 1893Times 8 July 12/2 Kid and patent leather Balmorals, and kid with calf galosh.
▪ II. gaˈlosh, goˈlosh, v.
Also 9 calash, colosh.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To furnish (a boot or shoe) with a galosh. Hence gaˈloshed ppl. a.
1804Jane Austen The Watsons (1879) 340 Nankeen galoshed with black looks very well. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1635 The shoe is of white kid leather, calashed with black velvet. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Grey Dolphin, His boots..had been ‘soled’ and ‘heeled’ more than once; had they been ‘goloshed’, their owner might have defied Fate! 1856R. Gardiner Handbk. of Foot 49 Walking or Winter Boots..coloshed with..calf leather. 1883London Advt., Calf Galoshed Clump Sole 10-Button Boots. |