goloshes
Britishplural noun
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Commodities showing decreases; grain products, salt, goloshes, tires, tobacco products.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He made careful preparations, wrapping himself in several coats and mufflers and encasing his neat boots in goloshes.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Later, walking in Sauchiehall Street, I met Mrs. Taylor in her 'prayer-meeting bonnet,' her skirt well kilted, goloshes on her feet, and her circular waterproof draping her spare figure.
From The Setons by O. Douglas
She stood there very solidly, her feet in goloshes, planted tenaciously upon the damp October earth.
From The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood
I throw off my goloshes in the entrance, steal up to my room and into bed.
From Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz
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