Galoshin
(Scottish) A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.
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(Scottish) A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.
In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the com…
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