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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as galoche.

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  1. 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 ("a shoemaker's last; wood + foot"). (Wiktionary)

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