Vernon wore a gray tall hat, a gardenia, and maroon Wellington boots that glistened like currant jelly.

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Other rubber paraphernalia, such as wet suits, gas masks, splash suits, Mackintoshes, galoshes, Wellington boots, rubber / plastic pants, and diapers are also often added to the scenario.

The gumboot dance ( or Isicathulo ) is an African dance that is performed by dancers wearing Wellington boots.

The Wellington boot, also known as rubber-boots, wellies, wellingtons, topboots, billy-boots, gumboots, gumbies, gummies, barnboots, wellieboots, muckboots, sheepboots, poopkickers, or rainboots are a type of boot based upon leather Hessian boots.

Wellington boots are waterproof and are most often made from rubber or polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) a halogenated polymer.

He is said to be wearing here the boots of his own design, the Wellington

Wellington boots were at first made of leather.

In World War II, Hunter Boot was again requested to supply vast quantities of Wellington and thigh boots.

Green Wellington boots, introduced by Hunters in 1955, gradually became a shorthand for " country life " and have been popularly thought to be typical not only of " country folk " but also of people who are really townies but wear " green wellies " because they want to be thought to be " country folk ", in the same way that they own Range Rovers or other 4x4 vehicles which are never driven off road.

In some parts of Ireland one can hear older people refer to their Wellington boots as " topboots ", usually black in colour, as this was a popular name for Wellingtons in the 1960s.

The miner uniform included Wellington boots, hard hats, and chains ; so the miners used the items of their work uniform to develop a form of communication, for safety, and simply as a form of entertainment.

In Britain, there is a light-hearted sport, known as wellie wanging, which involves throwing Wellington boots as far as possible.

Some individuals find wearing Wellington boots to be erotic.

Guardian book critic Laura Wilson described an Aga Saga setting as " complete with sprawling, untidy farmhouse ( flagstones, dogs, Wellington boots, and much nursing of mugs of coffee )".

An exhibit entitled " Pus In Boots " consisted of a pair of Wellington boots filled with custard ; a mock pesticide product called " Platytox " claimed on its box to be effective against the platypus, a beloved and protected species in Australia.

McCulloch always disliked army uniforms and was wearing a black velvet civilian suit and Wellington boots at the time of his death.

Most British Army regiments ' mess dress incorporates high-waisted, very tight trousers known as overalls, the bottoms of which buckle under leather Wellington or George boots.

An example of a type of boot fetish is for rubber boots, either the knee-high form of Wellington boots or the taller form of waders.

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He has the late Duke of Wellington class of nose, and his eyes, which have a serious and almost sad expression, are rather sunken, or appear so from the prominence of the curve nasal appearance.

Unqualified references to " the " Duke of Wellington almost always refer to him.

Wellington says, " Well, dear readers, it's taken almost fifty years for you to see the back of us.

Some sporting events have large numbers of fans attending in fancy dress costume, notably the Wellington Rugby Sevens where almost every fan who attends wears some sort of costume.

By the end of 1865 a niu stood in almost every large village from Taranaki to the Bay of Plenty and from the north of the Wellington district to the Waikato frontier.

The area to the south of Wellington is almost entirely residential of brick-veneer wood-frame construction dating to the 1910 to 1920s.

In an almost uniformly successful campaign he won a signal victory at Hoogstraten although he was fortunate to be supported, often very significantly, by the British General Thomas Graham, second in command to Lord Wellington.

The form book was almost thrown out the window at Fred Taylor Park also as Team Wellington came within seconds of defeating Waitakere United in the other semi-final.

Wellington Mara always felt this was the Giants oldest and truest rival and after passing away in 2005 the Giants honored their longtime owner by defeating the Redskins 36 – 0 at home.

Wellington can also be something of a worrier, always concerned that the world is going to rack an ' rooney ( rack and ruin ).

He was a familiar figure at the Carlton Club, always ready with a copious collection of anecdotes of Wellington, Disraeli and Napoleon III.

Wellington said, " The best of Hill is that I always know where to find him.

The statue was positioned facing south-east so that Wellington would always be looking towards the site of Waterloo-considered his greatest victory.

These names were subsumed in the Tudor period as ' Longe Southwark ' ( differentiated from ' Short Southwark ' now Tooley Street ) and by the late Georgian era as simply ' High Street ' and the northern section from the junction with Duke Street Hill was renamed ' Wellington Street ' to commemorate the Duke of Wellington.

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

Following on from this the local paper noted that the No 1 Company of the Wellington Militia had been called out, while the troops stationed in the town had been in the Hutt.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

The King rejected the unanimous advice of his cabinet, at which Lord Grey resigned, and the Crown called upon the Duke of Wellington to form a new government.

A board wargame called Wellington – The Peninsular War 1812 – 1814 was produced by GMT Games in 2005.

He initially called the town Ramseytown, later changed to Wellington ( after the Duke of Wellington ), and finally the name was changed to Ligonier.

They called for assistance from Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, but after experiencing a lack of cooperation from the Spanish during the Talavera campaign the British general refused.

J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip Popeye, created by E. C. Segar and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the strip.

The first recorded use of the name to describe the region, which until then had no officially sanctioned designation, was in 1820 when the name was given in York, Upper Canada by then Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland, Maitland was a veteran of the British campaign against the French in Spain, called the Peninsular War, during the Napoleonic Wars where he served under the command of Wellington.

A new party, called the New Zealand National Party, formed at a meeting held in Wellington on 13 and 14 May 1936.

Originally called the Wellington Bridge ( after the Duke of Wellington ), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge.

The 1st Light Horse Brigade was eventually forced back ; withdrawing slowly, troop covering troop with steady accurate fire, staving off a general attack with the bayonet to their fall-back position ; a large east / west sand dune called Wellington Ridge at the southern edge of the Romani encampment.

Also in 1995 Telecom created First Media Ltd to develop a cable television network across Auckland and Wellington, called First TV.

An example that combines the Pepper's ghost effect with a live actor and film projection can be seen in the Mystery Lodge exhibit at the Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park, California and the Ghosts of the Library exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, as well as the depiction of Maori legends called A Millennium Ago at the Museum of Wellington City & Sea.

The Wellington, Canterbury and Auckland Battalions gained another through Fir Tree Wood to a place called the ' Daisy Patch ' before they became pinned down.

A Major in the 95th Rifles called Richard and who, " unusually for an officer ... carries a rifle like his men " delivers captured French orders to the Duke of Wellington indicating the enemy's intention to fall back to Vitoria.

Lord John Hay took a pair, later called Schloff and Hytien, and gave them to his sister, the Duchess of Wellington, wife of Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington.