long-togs

noun

Clothes to be worn when going ashore.

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nounlong-togs pl (plural only)
  1. obsoletepluralplural onlynauticalClothes to be worn when going ashore.

    They laugh at long-togs so, Flask; but seems to me, a Long tailed coat ought always to be worn in all storms afloat. The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable-end eave-troughs, Flask.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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