toggery

tog·ger·y

 (tŏg′ə-rē, tô′gə-)
n. pl. tog·ger·ies
1. Clothing; togs.
2. A clothing store.
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toggery

(ˈtɒɡərɪ)
n
(Clothing & Fashion) informal clothes; togs
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tog•ger•y

(ˈtɒg ə ri)

n.
clothes; togs.
[1805–15]
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toggery

1. clothes, collectively.
2. a particular outfit of clothes.
See also: Clothing
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Toggery, Togs

 clothes collectively, 1812.
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References in classic literature
Now, this cupboard's full of all sorts of toggery. I tell the woman who cleans the room that it's for my models when I find 'em.
| Poster showing The Mulberry Blues supporting 1960s Manchester beat band, The Toggery Five
Cheetham's office address was given as The Toggery in Mersey Square which was owned by Michael Cohen.
We shall, in the narrative, give the performers in this real drama, unreal names; and for good reasons, throw just enough of our own toggery about them to prevent their being identified by strangers.
According to the advertisement, "The Chief knows what's what in baseball and baseball toggery! Everything you get here you can bank on will be O.K.
For 27 years, she has worked on weekday mornings at Murray's Toggery Shop on Main Street, the home of the famous Nantucket Reds Collection.
What has The Toggery, which sells high-end children's products, done to stay in business in a world of cheap goods?
Appalled by the villagers' reversion to older traditions, "living in their bark tents selling Indian toggery and trinkets ...
Another party, called an "annual jollification," was noted in the minutes of May 26, 1908: "Wearing our finest toggery and sweetest smiles, we accompanied our best beloved to the Amidon residence on West Fleshiem Street ...
Around 1908 for women, 'the accepted toggery is a two-piece suit consisting of a blouse and knickerbockers and trouserettes.
Chinese entrepreneurs led by Joe Shoong founded China Toggery on San Francisco's Fillmore Street in 1911.
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