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  • And what is more, as ill-luck would have it, another schoolfellow of ours, the son of the town doctor, must needs turn up and begin boasting of a new watch, a present from his grandmother, and not even a silver, but a pinch-back one ....

    The Watch 2006

  • Harry's pinch-back suit with the slanting pockets.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • I remember he sprung the first pinch-back coat that came into the office.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • An 'the next thing ya know, your son is playin' for money in a pinch-back suit.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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