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  • They were all around as I rode, the sidewalks wide and bustling with women in black sundresses and men in black hats gabbing with black-aproned shop owners.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • They were all around as I rode, the sidewalks wide and bustling with women in black sundresses and men in black hats gabbing with black-aproned shop owners.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • Music played and the black-aproned waiters hurried from table to table, behaving in such a grand and proud manner that I felt shabby and rustic and out of place, as if some mistake had been made and I should have been serving them.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • For all their kindness, the Murnan women could never be as reassuring as the prayer-covered, black-aproned matrons who'd have attended Martha back home.

    Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang

  • Meanwhile, the faster, O ye black-aproned Smiths, smite; with strong arm and willing heart.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • There were no Easter egg hues handled by white-gloved, black-aproned macaron girls.

    Serious Eats 2009

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