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Further, according to my authority, the men have breeches without seat (_ohne Gesäss_): these they fasten peakwise to their shirts; and the long round doublet must overlap them.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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