galoshe

Alternative forms

• galoche, galosh

Etymology

From Middle English galoche, galache, galage (meaning shoe), from Old French galoche, perhaps altered from Latin gallica ( meaning a Gallic shoe), or from Late Latin calopedia (meaning wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole), from Ancient Greek diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “a shoemaker's last; wood + foot”).

Noun

galoshe (plural galoshes)

1. (obsolete) A clog or patten.

   Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. - Chaucer.

2. Hence, an overshoe worn in wet weather.
3. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.