toggery
Example Sentences
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Billed as “an ode to the carefree atmosphere of the beach,” Coast is delightful and witty, retro beach toggery enveloped in terry cloth and sherbet colors.
From Washington Post
“The red trouser in America is actually the Nantucket Red, which can only be bought at Murray’s Toggery Shop on Nantucket,” said Peter Davis, the Park Avenue-reared editor in chief of Guest of a Guest, the night-life site.
From New York Times
There, let me alone, Jinny," cried the young man, shaking off the hand she had laid upon his arm, "or I shall bloody my toggery.
From Project Gutenberg
Nothing is more charming than to see three or four ladies, nicely turned out, arrive to grace the meet with their presence, but nothing is more abominable than the same number of amazons coming galloping up in full hunting toggery, although without the least idea of hunting, and rushing hither and thither, frightening the hounds and getting in everybody's way, as though they were personages of the vastest possible importance, and meant to ride with a skill not second to that of the Nazares.
From Project Gutenberg
No human creature capable of looking at any two sides of a question where he himself was concerned, ever did or could present himself in public and expect to be reverenced when arrayed in such uncouth and preposterous toggery.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
