overshoe
[oh-ver-shoo]
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noun
Compare galosh.
Origin of overshoe
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Examples from the Web for overshoe
Historical Examples of overshoe
My legs are stiff, and my legging has frozen fast 26 to my overshoe; I remember that.
The Singing Mouse StoriesEmerson Hough
Try a piece of overshoe, with a bone in it, for my beefsteak, likely.
Peck's Bad Boy and His PaGeorge W. Peck
I pick up every overshoe and know whose it is, but I can't find my own.
Song of the LarkWilla Cather
I ran up the steps, my cap in one hand, her overshoe in the other.
The House of a Thousand CandlesMeredith Nicholson
Men can walk water who are willing to take a boat for an overshoe.
Among the ForcesHenry White Warren
overshoe
noun
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