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the overshoe that admits defeat to weather while staying smugly bone-dry
means A waterproof overshoe, usually rubber, slipped over your regular shoes to keep them dry in rain, snow, or mud.
from From French 'galoche,' a kind of wooden-soled shoe or clog, which traces back to Late Latin 'gallicula' — a small Gaulish shoe, a diminutive of 'gallica,' meaning a sandal from Gaul. So the modern rubber overshoe carries, in its name, the ghost of ancient footwear walking the roads of Roman-era France.
- name origin
- from Greek footwear worn with wooden soles
- usually plural
- galoshes outnumber singular galosh nearly always
- rubber boom
- Goodyear's vulcanization made waterproof rubber overshoes possible
- slang life
- once meant a clumsy or foolish person
for instance
duck boot — l.l.bean's rubber-leather hybrid shoe, trademarked design since 1912 maine
hunter boot — british wellington boot made by hunter since 1856, iconic green rubber