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 Mrs. Henry Wood
The money we spent on the toggery ain't been thrown away even if you do get fired out of headquarters after a spell.
From An Amateur Fireman by James Otis
"And now, my hearty, move down to leeward there, and put on your new toggery, and we 'll see if a hot supper won't put some life in you."
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
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escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!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
"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
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