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- noun Plural form of
waistcoat .
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Examples
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A visitor recalled that at one fete, "positioned at the fireplaces that flanked both ends of the massive room, servants in waistcoats and powdered wigs, continually tossed handfuls of copper filings onto the flames, transforming them into blazes of vivid green."
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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A visitor recalled that at one fete, "positioned at the fireplaces that flanked both ends of the massive room, servants in waistcoats and powdered wigs, continually tossed handfuls of copper filings onto the flames, transforming them into blazes of vivid green."
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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As a child, his daughter is troubled by nightly dreams of grinning cats, caterpillars, rabbits in waistcoats, and short-tempered queens.
Alice In Wonderland deliasherman 2010
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As a child, his daughter is troubled by nightly dreams of grinning cats, caterpillars, rabbits in waistcoats, and short-tempered queens.
Alice In Wonderland deliasherman 2010
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A visitor recalled that at one fete, "positioned at the fireplaces that flanked both ends of the massive room, servants in waistcoats and powdered wigs, continually tossed handfuls of copper filings onto the flames, transforming them into blazes of vivid green."
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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A visitor recalled that at one fete, "positioned at the fireplaces that flanked both ends of the massive room, servants in waistcoats and powdered wigs, continually tossed handfuls of copper filings onto the flames, transforming them into blazes of vivid green."
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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I did like the witty renderings of hedgehogs in waistcoats and ducks sipping tea and rabbits losing their trousers, but the stories were, I felt, either excessively dull (Jeremy Fisher the frog is unsuccessful in catching the lunch that he has planned for his friends but it all ends well because they bring salad!) or excessively alarming (Squirrel Nutkin narrowly escapes being skinned by an owl!
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They love Tennyson so much that the colour of his waistcoats is a sort of minor Oregon question ... and I like that -- do not _you_?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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"vests," -- as he was in the habit of calling waistcoats and pantaloons or trousers, -- hanging up as if the owner had melted out of them.
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They would also return with these leather American "waistcoats" which were suitable for colder climates.
unknown title 2009
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