0 coverings worn over your ordinary shoes, worn especially in order to protect your shoes or to keep the surface you are walking on clean : --
The sealskin overshoes worn by Captain Scott on his last expedition to the South Pole are being conserved at the National Maritime Museum.
The doctors and nurses had full face masks, goggles to cover their eyes and plastic overshoes.
Raised overshoes were worn by women to keep the hems of their dresses out of the mud.
Overshoes have evolved in the past decades and now are being made with more advanced features, such as high traction outsoles.
They just picked a room, painted the walls and made those who were inside wear overshoes and gowns as though there was any sterility there.
These first overshoes were crude and needed much refining which his early years of manufacture took up in research and development.
Shoe type indicates the kinds of footwear such as boots, shoes, pattens, overshoes, etcetera.
He patented cloth overshoes reinforced with rubber to keep the feet dry.
Most overshoes have a hole in the sole for clipless pedals.
In wet weather, riding can be more tolerable with waterproof clothes, such as cape, jacket, trousers (pants) and overshoes.
Overshoes are not to be confused with cleat covers.