toggery
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Origin of toggery
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In the post-housebound era, if casual toggery becomes the norm for work, will underwire bras go the way of ties, suits and vertiginous heels?
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
Woodstock is a historic haven for musicians, artists and activists, a place to slow down and revel in nature’s glory and head shops crammed with tie-dye toggery, long a favored weekend destination for city folk.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2020
The other day I was in my boat in my fishing toggery, as usual, when a fellow comes up, addresses me as 'My good man,' and plunges into queries touching the sea and the fishing-trade.
From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
“There, young gentlemen,” said John, “that’s as much toggery as I can get in the colonel’s soft portmanter, and you’ll have to make shift, Master Perry, if you want any more flannels and things.”
From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville
There was the man who believed himself to be Napoleon reincarnated, and amused everybody with his military toggery and braggadocio.
From Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
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