Galoshin

English Etymology From the name of a play by Guizard, and the title character of that play. Noun en Scottish A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play. en The Illustrated London News 93 498 Hallowmas Eve 1888 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 forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor. en Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 'I HAVE THE PROSPECT OF GOING TO GALLOWAY': THE REV. WALTER GREGOR AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 2009 Stephen Miller The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie. en Folklore 123 1 The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays 2012 E Cass 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. en The Jumbies’ Playing Ground Robert Wyndham Nicholls 2012 23 1617036110 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. Anagrams en aghilnos shoaling gai lohns Hoaglins halo sign Shaoling