The most extensive "galosh" factory in Russia, which is said to be the largest in the world, is reclaiming rubber according to American methods. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
The hero's name was Robert Porter Allen, research director of the Audubon Society and no galosh-wearing dispenser of birdseed, he. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
He ducked under a display of condoms that promised long-lasting pleasure in a variety of colors and certainly were an improvement over the old Soviet galosh. From Wordnik.com. [Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel] Reference
Sculpted by Lithuanian artist Romas Kvintas, it depicts a boy clasping a galosh, in a nod Gary’s 1960 work "La promesse de l’aube" Promise at Dawn. From Wordnik.com. [ROMAIN GARY HONORED] Reference
` to 'and leor ` sufficiency'; galosh, from the Gaulish gallica. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference
(tuxedo, popularized at a country club in Tuxedo Park, New York); outer wear (ulster, Ireland; mackinaw, traded in the 19th century on Mackinac Island, Michigan); footwear (galosh, from the Latin gallica solea, ` Gaulish sandal '); and almost-no-wear. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
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