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gaiter
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wasta, *wastija, from Proto-Germanic *wastij? (“garment; dress”).
Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic ???????????????????? (wasti, “garment; dress”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??e?.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??e?.t??/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Noun
gaiter (plural gaiters)
- A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
- Coordinate term: spats
- A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
- Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
Translations
See also
- spat
Verb
gaiter (third-person singular simple present gaiters, present participle gaitering, simple past and past participle gaitered)
- To dress with gaiters.
Further reading
- gaiters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- aigret, tirage, triage, trigae
Catalan
Etymology
gaita +? -er
Noun
gaiter m (plural gaiters, feminine gaitera)
- bagpiper
Further reading
- “gaiter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old French
Verb
gaiter
- Alternative form of gaitier
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
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galoshe
English
Alternative forms
- galoche, galosh
Etymology
From Middle English galoche, galache, galage (“shoe”), from Old French galoche, perhaps altered from Latin gallica (meaning a Gallic shoe),or from Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from an Ancient Greek diminutive of ???????? (kalópous, “a shoemaker's last; wood + foot”).
Noun
galoshe (plural galoshes)
- (obsolete) A clog or patten.
- Hence, an overshoe worn in wet weather.
- A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
Translations
References
- galoshe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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