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"Galoshes" are what my dad wore on his feet to protect his Allen Edmonds from sloppy weather.

It may also have come from women who did not lace up their galoshes, and let them "flap" around.

One of the kindergarten teachers from that time, Alma Bunch, remembers that her class at South Beaver School consisted of 46 students whose winter dress ranged from little coats and little galoshes to old blankets.

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In an open letter to the interior minister, the honorary chairperson of Cyprus Stop Trafficking, Androula Christofidou Henriques, urged officials who plan on visiting the reception centre over Christmas to wear galoshes.

And he always wore galoshes. Even in summer, he'd wear unbuckled snow boots (and Bermuda shorts) as he toted his metal carrier with milk, cream and butter straight to our fridge.

The Commune's principles of voluntary federation and free association, centred on their notion of 'the Universal Republic' that went 'beyond the cellular regime of nationality', are explored through the likes of the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Aid to the Wounded; famed shoemaker Napoleon Gaillard, philosopher of the shoe, builder and artist of the barricade, and inventor of rubber galoshes; and Eugene Pottier, decorative artist, champion of integral education and author of the 'International' which he dedicated to fellow Communard Gustave Lefrancais.

It's such a nice town with some lovely views, Next time I'll wear 'galoshes' over my shoes.

24, 2008, file photo, singer Scott Weiland performs at the Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles to promote his new album, "Happy in Galoshes." Weiland, the former frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died.

Early NCR subscribers William and Lorraine D'Antonio have been married 65 years, yet they can still recall in detail their "beginning of beginning to be together" when Bill left his galoshes at Lorraine's home after a Christmas cocktail party that she and her friends had hosted.

around in their galoshes, and in a bank of clouds that follow them