Strangely, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology seems to agree with Brewer’s and not with the OED—it’s fellow Oxford University Press publication, in blaming galoshes on the Gauls.

很奇怪，《简明牛津英语词典》中关于galoshes的词源解释似乎和布鲁尔氏大词典一致，却有悖于《牛津英语词典》（牛津大学出版社版本），不同意galoshes源自Gauls的提法。

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