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
His circumstances, or rather his father's penuriousness, prevented it; and the consequence was, that he frequently found himself considerably below his own standard of perfection in the article toggery.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
Bodgers, find some toggery and take him into the cabin.
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
"It isn't a good fit," he remarked with a laugh, "but the other toggery was impossible for the moors."
From Windyridge by W. Riley
"People say that you have the strength of ten men; can't you trust to it without depending on these toggeries and tricks?"
From Tales from Tennyson by Molly K. Bellew
Back topsails! you can't escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Why don't you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
From Ziska by Marie Corelli
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