galoshin

noun

1. (Scotland)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 company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor.”

   “The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.”

   “This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.”

   “Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.”