goloshes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Commodities showing decreases; grain products, salt, goloshes, tires, tobacco products.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It’s like turning from the feet of a goddess to a pair of goloshes.
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
I wore huge goloshes; my battered cylinder, surmounted by a gigantic red feather, was drenched with rain, so that I could easily have thrust it under my arm and made a crush hat of it.
From Tales From J?kai by J?kai, M?r
"Do you?" said Molly, "Then I wish you'd ask God not to let my goloshes fall off so often."
From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by How, Frederick Douglas
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