ghillie

American  

[gil-ee] / ˈgɪl i /

Or gillie

noun

1. a low-cut, tongueless shoe with loops instead of eyelets for the laces, which cross the instep and are sometimes tied around the ankle.

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ghillie British  

/ ˈɡɪlɪ /

noun

1. a type of tongueless shoe with lacing up the instep, originally worn by the Scots

2. a variant spelling of gillie

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Etymology

Origin of ghillie

1590–1600; gillie; apparently a type of shoe originally worn by Scottish hunting guides

Example Sentences

The medallion of venison on my plate came from a deer shot by one of the restaurant’s waiters who spends summers as a ghillie, a hunting and fishing guide.

From The Wall Street Journal

His filthy clothes were torn into vertical strips, like one of the ghillie suits hunters and military snipers use for camouflage.

From Salon

The posts indicated he did appear to own a long-range sniper rifle and numerous other weapons, as well as camouflage gear known as a “ghillie suit,” investigators said in court records.

From Washington Times

In what might be the video’s climax, a slow-motion, smeary animation of a figure in a fluorescent ghillie suit starts raving to deep, pulsing bass.

From New York Times

A ghillie suit, a full-body camouflage suit worn by hunters or military snipers.

From Washington Post