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Galoshes
Galoshes (from (フランス語:galoches)), also known as boat shoes, dickersons, or overshoes, are a type of rubber boot that is slipped over shoes to keep them from getting muddy or wet. The word ''galoshes'' might be used interchangeably with boot, especially a rubberized boot. Properly speaking, however, a galosh is an overshoe made of a weatherproof material to protect a more vulnerable shoe underneath and keep the foot warm and dry.
==History==
The word comes through French and Latin from Greek and originally meant a shoemaker's last; literally "wood" + "foot". By the 14 C it had been transferred to English style clogs, that is those with a wooden sole and fabric (e.g. leather) upper. By 1572 the term also applied to "a Gallage or Patten", that is an overshoe with a shaped wooden base to raise the wearer's good shoes out of the dirt.〔
In Turkey, the word refers to a polythene overshoe that is worn temporarily when visiting homes or offices, to protect the floors against dirt from the outside.
"Goloshes" appears to be the older spelling of ''galoshes'' used previously in Great Britain. The spelling perhaps changed around 1920 to the present-day spelling.〔(Victorian Research ) Login needed〕
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