Waistcoats
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He found young men's costumes of days long gone by, frock coats with high velvet collars, dainty
waistcoats
cut very open, interminable white cravats, and patent-leather shoes dating from the beginning of the century.
More example sentences with word waistcoats
'And these idiotic open
waistcoats
– it's impossible!'
The young men wore long-waisted loose uniforms wide across the shoulders with white waistcoats, or else were in uniforms with black collars embroidered with laurel leaves – the emblem of the Ministry of Justice.
The chins of the other members of the jury went slowly up and down in their
waistcoats
in sign of approval.
The young beaux were strutting about in the pit, showing in the opening of their
waistcoats
their pink or applegreen cravats, and Madame Bovary from above admired them leaning on their canes with golden knobs in the open palm of their yellow gloves.
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