toggery
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In the post-housebound era, if casual toggery becomes the norm for work, will underwire bras go the way of ties, suits and vertiginous heels?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2022
Woodstock is a historic haven for musicians, artists and activists, a place to slow down and revel in nature’s glory and head shops crammed with tie-dye toggery, long a favored weekend destination for city folk.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2020
The lad handed over the toggery, which Bindabun stuffed, being of very fine silken tissue, into his coat pocket, after which he hurried off to Victoria in great agitation to make inquiries.
From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee
In short, his whole "toggery" was faultless—a perfect out-and-outer.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Thursday evening, dinner number two, and evening of wedding day, our bridesmaids' toggery must suffice; Friday, dinner number three, those blue nun's veiling dresses will appear and charm the eyes.
From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade
Back topsails! you can't escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
"People say that you have the strength of ten men; can't you trust to it without depending on these toggeries and tricks?"
From Tales from Tennyson by Molly K. Bellew
Why don't you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
From Ziska by Marie Corelli
