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
He saw naught like this, but he knew that if ever the sober burghers lent themselves to this sort of fantastic toggery, it was certainly whole.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
No miss, I can't come in in this toggery; I'm all gurry.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)
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.
Why don't you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
"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 Bellew, Molly K.
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escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!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 Lowell, James Russell
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