galoches

Bombay! and how angry I had been for three weeks because I couldn't get those indispensable galoches!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Hans Christian Andersen's story, who put on the galoches of happiness and stepped out into the Middle Ages, let us slip our feet into the sandals of imagination and step out into the desert or the jungle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

In rainy weather the feet should be protected by overshoes or galoches

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

At night, he saw piles of galoches at the foot of his bed, and five-franc pieces lying flat, all glistening.

The Child Spy 1917

Varka sits on the floor, cleans the galoches, and thinks how delightful it would be to thrust her head into the big, deep galoche, and slumber in it a while.

"Sleepy-Eye" 1906

His pair of prancing blacks were only his galoches, and his protection against the weather a long ulster, a chest-protector of thickly padded satin, and an opera-hat.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

It was a trophy that he hoped to win, and to that end he worked patiently, selling bonds all day, and at night as patiently setting forth in his galoches, his ulster, and his opera-hat to storm the outer works of society.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

The public had refused to place any confidence whatsoever in his patent reversible spats, which, when turned inside out, could be made useful as galoches; and the beaux of New York actually rejected with scorn the celluloid chrysanthemum, which he had hoped would become

The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892

There is nothing so perfectly respectable as galoches.

Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis 1890

You put it in golf balls and auto tires and galoches.

Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis 1890