DCHP-2

toggy [miskotaki coat; perhaps influenced in early use by older cant toge(man), ult. < L toga cloak, loose coat] Fur Trade, Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.
a calf-length greatcoat of skins, usually beaver, worn by Indians and traders in the Hudson Bay country. Also spelled tockey and toggey.
See also: beaver coat beaver tockey
- 1743 (1949) All the Indians was gone for their Winter Quarters Except some women who I Keep for to Dress beavr. for tockey's for their own use. . . .
- 1774, 1795 This day I gave each of the People a Dresst Moose Skin to mak them a Toggey for the Winter.
- 1821 (1900) I painted leather Toggy with Porcupine Epaulets and trimmed with the Otter Skin.
- 1957 Coat beaver--supple, greasy skins worn as "toggies" by Indians--were the kind preferred by hat makers.