toggery

English

Etymology

From tog ‎ -ery.

Noun

toggery (countable and uncountable, plural toggeries)

1. Clothing, togs.
   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Rector’s Night-walk to His Church”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], 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.

2. A clothing shop.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary