galoshes: [14] In modern terms, galoshes might be etymologically rendered as ‘little French shoes’. The word comes from Old French galoche, which was an alteration of late Latin gallicula. This in turn was a diminutive form of Latin gallica, short for gallica solea ‘Gallic sandal, sandal from Gaul’ (the name Gaul, incidentally, and the Latin-based Gallic [17], come ultimately from prehistoric Germanic *walkhoz ‘foreigners’, which is related also to Walloon, walnut, and Welsh). The term galosh was originally used in English for a sort of clog; the modern sense ‘overshoe’ did not develop until the early 19th century. => gallic, walloon, walnut, welsh
galoshes (n.)
mid-14c. (surname Galocher is attested from c. 1300), "kind of footwear consisting of a wooden sole fastened onto the foot with leather thongs," perhaps from Old French galoche "overshoe, galosh" (singular), 13c., from Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of gallica (solea) "a Gallic (sandal)" [Klein]. Alternative etymology [Barnhart, Hatz.-Darm.] is from Vulgar Latin *galopia, from Greek kalopodion, diminutive of kalopous "shoemaker's last," from kalon "wood" (properly "firewood") + pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). "The name seems to have been variously applied" [OED]. Modern meaning "rubber covering of a boot or shoe" is from 1853.
实用例句
1. a pair of galoshes
一双橡胶套鞋
来自《权威词典》
2. They wear galoshes in wet weather.
他们在下雨天穿胶套鞋.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. Why would I lie about taking his galoshes?
我为什么要撒谎说拿了他的胶鞋?
来自电影对白
4. In Hong Kong people seldom wear galoshes in wet weather.
在香港下雨天很少有人穿童鞋.
来自互联网
5. Faith himself did not like the shoe - pacs and wore galoshes over his leather combat boots.
