"I think that gallicæ is a new word, which was begun to be used not long before Cicero's time, therefore used by him in the Second of the Antonians. 'Cum gallicis,' says he, 'et lacerna cucurristi.' Nor do I read it in any other writer of authority, but other words are employed."
The Romans named shoes after persons and places as we do: for examples, see Dr. W. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, sub voc. "Calceus."
B. H. C.
Poplar.
This word is not of American derivation. In the Promptorium Parvulorum we find,—
"Galache or Galoche, undersolynge of manny's fote."
Mr. Way says in his note:
"The galache was a sort of patten, fastened to the foot by cross latchets, and worn by men as early as the time of Edward III. Allusion is made to it by Chaucer,
'Ne were worthy to unbocle his galoche.'—Squires Tale, 10,869."
Among many other quotations Mr. Way gives the following:
"To geten hym gilte spores,