Middle English Dictionary Entry
galoche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | galoche n. Also galache, galoge, galage, galegge, kaloge. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of footwear, consisting of a wooden sole fastened onto the foot with leather thongs; (b) ~ maker, one whose trade is to make galoches.
Associated quotations
a
- (1363-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100566 : In..1 pari de Galag' pro priore..In j par. de galog'.
- (c1364-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100568 : In..1 pari de Galoches.
- (1373-74) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103578 : In solucione facta pro bots, kaloges empt pro dicto d'no Priore, 2 s.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.555 : Ne koude man..Countrefete the sophymes of his art Ne were worthy vnbokele his galoche Ther doublenesse or feynyng sholde approche.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.14 : As is þe kynde of a kyyȝte þat cometh to be dubbed, To geten hem gylte spores or galoches ycouped.
- (1408) LRed Bk.Bristol2.105 : Pur la faisour de chescun paire de Galoges, ij d.
- (c1424-34) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120194 : Pro xij paribus de galages, shapyng et factura.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)184 : Galache, or galoche, vndyr solynge of mannys fote [vrr. galegge, or galoch, vndirshone, vnderschoyinge]: Crepitum, crepita, obstringillus.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)157 : Sexe galeys [read: galegs], I see, of sable with-inn, And iche one has a brown brase with bokels twayne.
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.143 : [A pair of] galoges.
- (1464) RParl.5.566b : Eny Shoes, Botes, or Galoges.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57314 : For a payr galaches and a payr shone for my mastres Ysbelle, xij d.
b
- (1394) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms219 : Thom. Spencer, galochemaker.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.148/244 : Item, of þe Galochemakers, be j tyme, viij d.