For instance, to the head of the Punch Firm, after a Punch dinner: "Jan 14. "Would you allow one of your retainers to look under the table and see if I left a golosh there-and if so, tell him to leave it at Swain's, to be returned by his messenger on Monday?
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
I must have been tight, and the golosh not tight enough, and I appeared at the Duchess's with one golosh and my trousers tucked up.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
When they had escorted us inside, one took one golosh, and one took another, and then they took off our furs and wraps, and there was no escape for us except by mounting the beautiful red-carpeted marble staircase.
"Memoirs of an American Prima Donna"
Clara Louise Kellogg