galoshe

English

Alternative forms

• galoche, galosh

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English galoche, galache, galage (meaning shoe), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French galoche, perhaps altered from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gallica ( meaning a Gallic shoe), or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin calopedia (meaning wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “a shoemaker's last; wood + foot”).

Noun

galoshe (plural galoshes)

1. (obsolete) A clog or patten.

   Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. - Chaucer.

2. Hence, an overshoe worn in wet weather.
3. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

Translations

overshoe worn in wet weather

• Danish: galoche c
• French: Claque f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Galosche (de) f
• Swedish: galosch (sv) c

References

• “galoshe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.