overshoe

Early in their development process, Mermoud, Diard, and Aubonnet considered making a downhill-only, slip-on overshoe of sorts, one that could be carried in a pack on uphill sections and attached for long, rugged downhills.

“I thought for a minute he was,” responded Louise, stooping to fasten the buckle of her heavy overshoe.

The mitten and overshoe theory may seem to you but a sad sign of approaching age and debility—and so none of them for you.

Jean broke up the crusted snow with the heel of her overshoe; then buried her feet in the powdery mound.

One day I noticed an odor that reminded me of a hot overshoe trying to smother a glue factory at the close of a tropical day.

Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe.