Great Expectations vocabulary

19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)

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19 [fashion] words
top boots
beaver
plait
sackcloth
farthingale
staylace
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staylace

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Definition:
A lace for fastening stays.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"There's Matthew!" said Camilla. "Never mixing with any natural ties, never coming here to see how Miss Havisham is! I have taken to the sofa with my staylace cut, and have lain there hours insensible, with my head over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don't know where—"

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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