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
Observe the extraordinary anatomical proportions, hat and toggery, of Mr. Newman Noggs, as he stretches up to the top of the coach to hand a letter to Nicholas.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
No miss, I can't come in in this toggery; I'm all gurry.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
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
Why don't you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
From Ziska by Marie Corelli
"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
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escape him; The man-ropes stretch with his weight, And the queerest old toggeries drape him, The Lord knows how long out of date!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
