"1 pair of golossians, 6s.; 16 gold buckles with pendants and toungs to
buckle a pair of golosses."--_Archaeol._ xi. 93.
Nares says:
"GALAGE. A clown's coarse shoe from _galloche_, a shoe with a wooden
sole, old French, which itself is supposed to be from _gallica_, a kind
of shoe mentioned by Cicero, _Philip._ ii. 30., and A. Gellius, xiii.
21. If so, the word has returned to the country whence it was first
taken, but I doubt much of that derivation; by the passages referred to
in the above authors, it seems more likely that the _gallica_ was a
luxurious covering, than one so very coarse as the galloche. Perhaps
the _caliga_, or military strong boot of the Romans, from which
Caligula was named, may be a better origin for it. The word _galloche_
is now naturalised among us for a kind of clog, worn over the shoes."