Galoshin
Galoshin noun: a mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.
Noun
Galoshin (plural Galoshins)
- A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.
- In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some...1888, “Hallowmas Eve”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 93, page 498
- The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.2009, Stephen Miller, “'I HAVE THE PROSPECT OF GOING TO GALLOWAY': THE REV. WALTER GREGOR AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”, in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural...
Examples of Galoshin in a sentence
- This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.2012, E Cass, “The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays”, in Folklore, volume 123, number 1:
- Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, →ISBN, page 23:
Forms of Galoshin
| plural | Galoshins |
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Origin of Galoshin
From the name of a play by Guizard, and the title character of that play.
Questions about Galoshin
- What does Galoshin mean?
- Galoshin means a mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.
- How do you use Galoshin in a sentence?
- This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.
- What part of speech is Galoshin?
- Galoshin is a noun.
- What is the plural of Galoshin?
- The plural of Galoshin is Galoshins.
Words near Galoshin in the dictionary
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