goloshes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Commodities showing decreases; grain products, salt, goloshes, tires, tobacco products.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He made careful preparations, wrapping himself in several coats and mufflers and encasing his neat boots in goloshes.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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"Do you?" said Molly, "Then I wish you'd ask God not to let my goloshes fall off so often."
From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by Frederick Douglas How
And he glided silently down stairs, giving me scarcely time to observe that he was a young man with black hair, black eyes and whiskers, and wearing goloshes.
From Medical Life in the Navy by Gordon Stables
Dorine tripped across the puddles in her goloshes, hugging herself in her old-fashioned, long fur cloak.
From Small Souls by Louis Couperus
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