"Galoshin" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Galoshins [plural]
Etymology: From the name of a play by Guizard, and the title character of that play. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Galoshin (plural Galoshins)
  1. (Scotland) A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-Galoshin-en-noun-HHZp2TVN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Scottish English

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1888, “Hallowmas Eve”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 93, page 498:",
          "text": "In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stephen Miller, “'I HAVE THE PROSPECT OF GOING TO GALLOWAY': THE REV. WALTER GREGOR AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”, in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society:",
          "text": "The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, E Cass, “The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays”, in Folklore, volume 123, number 1:",
          "text": "This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.",
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