toggery
- noun
- /ˈtɑɡəri/
- Archaic
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- My favorite toggery is just down the street.
Examples
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He bought a new suit at the local toggery before the wedding.
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The small town's only toggery closed after fifty years in business.
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She sorted through her old toggery to find something suitable for the party.
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He bought a new toggery for the party.
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She always dresses in fashionable toggery when attending social events.
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The local boutique specializes in vintage toggery from the 1970s.
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He browsed the toggery for a new suit to wear to the wedding.
Synonyms
6
1.1
A shop that sells women's dresses and matching jewelry
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8.6
A shop that sells men's clothes and accessories like hats and ties
Clothes people wear, often for going out or special events
An old word for clothes
A shop in the past that sold cheap ready-made clothes often used by sailors
Antonyms
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
toggery = tog (semi-transparent) = tog + togg + ery
The word is transparently formed by a clothing stem ('tog') plus the suffix '-ery' meaning a collection/place, but both the stem and the suffix sense are informal/archaic and may not be obvious to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Toggery comes from the short word tog, an old informal English word for 'clothes' used in phrases like 'to tog up' meaning 'to dress'. So, a toggery is a shop or group of 'clothes'.