goloshes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Commodities showing decreases; grain products, salt, goloshes, tires, tobacco products.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Prue, the prone to quinsy, to throats, to delicacy of all kinds, straying over the deep-dewed grass without cloak or goloshes!
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
She stood there very solidly, her feet in goloshes, planted tenaciously upon the damp October earth.
From The Promise of Air by Blackwood, Algernon
Oh, I know it's a risk, and we're outnumbered, and we ought to be prudent, and all the other things that people say who sit in easy-chairs and wear goloshes.
From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert
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