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  • noun bearing, carriage, deportment
  • noun mode of dress

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  • '"Only then you began grumbling about their tenue, these girls', Bermuda shorts and so on, you said where had all the baroque charm gone?'"

    - W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl

    January 2, 2012