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
“There, young gentlemen,” said John, “that’s as much toggery as I can get in the colonel’s soft portmanter, and you’ll have to make shift, Master Perry, if you want any more flannels and things.”
From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville
“Well, Jack,” I exclaimed, my own language sounding strangely in my ears, “’pon my life I don’t see what you had to laugh at in me, for your toggery is no better.”
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts
I'm a rough diamond; don't care how I dress—accounts for my rather worn toggery; see?
From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John
Why don't you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
"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 Bellew, Molly K.
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escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!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 Lowell, James Russell
