And yet I understand garbes, from the elevation of your pole to the most humble galosh.

neckerchief, neckcloth^; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal^, rabat^. shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche^, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral^; arctics, bootee, bootikin^, brogan, chaparajos^; chavar^, chivarras^, chivarros^; gums [U.S.], larrigan

And each time he came back a little finer than before, a greater man; the last time, he even wore galoshes to keep his feet dry.

Ready to go himself, too, by the look of it; in a fine blue suit, white collar, galoshes, and a walking-stick.

A strange man to live in the wilds; a gentleman with thin writer's hands, and the sense of a woman for finery; for sticks and umbrellas and galoshes.

They then go shopping, buying umbrellas, India-rubber galoshes, and all descriptions of wearing apparel, which they contrive to smuggle over, notwithstanding the vigilance of the custom-house officers at Reval.

It looks like snow; or, By life in galoshes.

Little galoshes.

It looks like snow; or, By life in galoshes.

Little galoshes.

No one is furnished with foot-gear to walk in snow, except men who happen to have high galoshes.

Juliet borrowed a pair of galoshes, and insisted on going to the chapel.