An overshoe or rubber shoe worn over regular shoes to protect them from water or mud.
From Russian voloshenka or related Slavic words, entering English through Dutch trade routes in the 17th-18th centuries. Later also spelled galosh.
Galoshes and goloshes are among the few pieces of English clothing vocabulary that come directly from Russian, showing how practical items traveled along trade routes and borrowed their names from the cultures that invented them.
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