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English
Etymology
From tog + -ery.
Noun
toggery (countable and uncountable, plural toggeries)
- Clothing, togs.
1863, J Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Rector’s Night-walk to His Church”, in The House by the Church-yard. In Three Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC, page 20:Old Sally, with her kind, mild, grave face, and gray locks, stood modestly behind in the hall; and pretty Lilias, his only child, gave him her parting kiss, and her last grand charge about his shoes and other exterior toggery, in the porch; and he patted her cheek with a little fond laugh, taking old John Tracy's, the butler's, arm. John carried a handsome horn-lantern, which flashed now on a roadside bush—now on the discoloured battlements of the bridge—and now on a streaming window.
- A clothing shop.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary