Or galoches y-couped."—Piers Ploughman, 12,099.
And in the Wardrobe Book of Prince Henry, A.D. 1607, are mentioned—
"1 pair of golossians, 6s.; 16 gold buckles with pendants and toungs to buckle a pair of golosses."—Archæol. xi. 93.
Nares says:
"Galage. A clown's coarse shoe from galloche, a shoe with a wooden sole, old French, which itself is supposed to be from gallica, a kind of shoe mentioned by Cicero, Philip. ii. 30., and A. Gellius, xiii. 21. If so, the word has returned to the country whence it was first taken, but I doubt much of that derivation; by the passages referred to in the above authors, it seems more likely that the gallica was a luxurious covering, than one so very coarse as the galloche. Perhaps the caliga, or military strong boot of the Romans, from which Caligula was named, may be a better origin for it. The word galloche is now naturalised among us for a kind of clog, worn over the shoes."
See also Richardson's Dictionary, s. v. "Galoche."
Zeus.
Seleucus need not have gone quite so far as to "the tribe of North American Indians, the Goloshes," or to America at all, for his derivation. If he will look in his French dictionary he will find,—
"Galoche (espèce de mule que l'on porte par dessus les souliers), galoshoe."
I quote from Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal, edit. 1753.