wet-sole

Updated: May 16, 2025

There were a dozen of them in the tail or retinue of old Lachie's son a henchman, piper, piper's valet, gille-mor, gille wet-sole, or running footman, and such others as the more vain of our Highland gentry at the time ever insisted on travelling about with, all stout junky men of middle size, bearded to the brows, wearing flat blue bonnets with a pervenke plant for badge on the sides of them, on their feet deerskin brogues with the hair out, the rest of their costume all belted tartan, and with arms clattering about them.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn