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I put on my cravenette coat, too, so I could carry the shovel under it, out of sight. \par As we started across the midway, Estelle said, \ldblquote Eddie, while you were in there I was thinking.
Red Dog Buchanan, James David 1979
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I have already planned in my mind a pretty rag rug for you, to be made from your old, garnet merino shirtwaist, combined with your discarded cravenette stormcoat.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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You remember, we could not decide what use to make of your old, tan cravenette stormcoat?
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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The one natural and frank color visible was the ostensible green of the newly painted benches -- a shade between the color of a pickled cucumber and that of a last year's fast-black cravenette raincoat.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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It's kind of a hobby of mine to want to cravenette myself for plenty of rainy days in the future.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
52james commented on the word cravenette
in Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi, the heroine wraps her husband's cravenette around her waist, but only her belly was successfully covered. Even tho she's been cheating on him, this sight"of her white arms and legs protruding from the red gown, like stems in a pot of boiled cabbage, clawed seductively at his heart." A cravenette, serge treated to be waterproof, would be used to keep off rain.
November 19, 2022