Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
galoche .
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- noun obsolete A
clog orpatten . - noun Hence, an
overshoe worn in wet weather. - noun A
gaiter , orlegging , covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Etymologies
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From Middle English galoche, galache, galage (meaning shoe), from Old French galoche, perhaps altered from Latin gallica ( meaning a Gallic shoe), or from Late Latin calopedia (meaning wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole), from Ancient Greek diminutive of καλόπους ("a shoemaker's last; wood + foot").
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