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  • In some publication she ran across a brief printed note to the effect that French women were just beginning to wear fascinating beruffled caps at the breakfast table.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • The bride checks her wedding gown, puts on her beruffled kitchen apron, and checks her kitchen equipment, the staple closet, the spice corner, and the emergency shelf.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • Seeing the outstanding prima donna from Down Under tackling this one with a group of red-robed, beruffled British choir boys is a lesson in cultural diversity all on its own.

    Archive 2008-12-14 Janet Ursel 2008

  • E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Seeing the outstanding prima donna from Down Under tackling this one with a group of red-robed, beruffled British choir boys is a lesson in cultural diversity all on its own.

    The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy Janet Ursel 2008

  • All the people whose portraits are hanging up, beruffled, dignified, calm, and periwigged, on the old walls of Edgeworthstown certainly had extraordinarily strong impressions, and gave eloquent expression to them.

    Castle Rackrent 2006

  • "The way he inserts himself into his reviews is just so stylistically overboard, it's absurd," said Julia Langbein, a 23-year-old arts-program specialist for the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and a part-time comedian who twice weekly posts to her blog, the Bruni Digest, which imagines Mr. Bruni as a beruffled count.

    Off the Record 2005

  • "The way he inserts himself into his reviews is just so stylistically overboard, it's absurd," said Julia Langbein, a 23-year-old arts-program specialist for the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and a part-time comedian who twice weekly posts to her blog, the Bruni Digest, which imagines Mr. Bruni as a beruffled count.

    Off the Record 2005

  • Her half-turned, hand-on-hip position also showed the curve of the hip-hugging black skirt and the beruffled blouse, sheer black like the slightly laddered stocking.

    the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

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