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Shiny alla franga wooden curtain-poles and red curtains of the lodging-house type adorn the windows; and over the coffin hangs a large glass chandelier.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

And the schoolmaster's wife – who was alla franga and looked quite out of place in the picture – was held up to her as a shining example.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

I could have come in comfort, he said, by steamer from Scutari to Saloniki, thence by rail, quite alla franga, to Ferizovich, and driven in a carriage to Prizren.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The nation that had done this had just dressed itself up in an imitation alla franga Constitution.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Our hosts had never seen a foreign woman dressed alla franga before in their land, and thought my coming rather a joke; for a Giaour to be riding openly through Hashi to Djakova unarmed was unusual, to say the least of it – only the besa made it possible.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Worth all the journey, for as yet it is but little spoiled with alla franga.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

And quite a crowd came merely to look at us, for I was said to be the first foreign female and the first female dressed alla franga, in Vuthaj; and the first foreigner of any sort that had come right into Vuthaj.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The demand for very fine work is now slight – alla franga will maybe soon kill it – but there are still in Prizren workmen who can execute it.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Every one was touzled and dressed, half or wholly, alla franga, but wore their European clothes in Oriental manner – unbuttoned, crumpled, torn, and impossible.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The Metropolitan insisted that, alla franga, it was correct to begin with a hors d'oeuvre.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909