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toggery

[ tog-uh-ree ]

/ ˈtɒg ə ri /

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noun, plural tog·ger·ies for 2.

Informal. clothes; garments; togs.

Chiefly British. a clothing shop.

Origin of toggery

First recorded in 1805–15; tog + -ery

Words nearby toggery

togavirus, together, together with, togetherness, togger, toggery, toggle, toggle bolt, toggle iron, toggle joint, toggle switch

Example sentences from the Web for toggery

But he had not laid aside with his toggery any of his important and consequential airs.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue |Various
Why, bless you, that toggery would be heaven compared to what a man has to contend with.

Peck's Sunshine |George W. Peck
I found all my family well and hearty: but they all shook a cloth in the wind with respect to toggery.

Peter Simple |Frederick Marryat
He was a fierce-looking fellow, and particularly so when fixed up in his Sunday toggery.

The Boy Spy |Joseph Kerby

He gave one look at the picturesque, if not fantastic, toggery of his restored child.

On the Stairs |Henry B. Fuller

British Dictionary definitions for toggery

toggery

/ (ˈtɒɡərɪ) /

noun

informal clothes; togs