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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
5 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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chapeau-bras
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synonyms: crush-hat, forage cap ???
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Definition:a crush-hat [coined English-French, not real French]Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)---a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
photo: By unidentified French military photographer, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8690744
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"I am ready to go," she said, taking his arm. At the door of the box she turned and looked straight at Chauvelin, who, with his chapeau-bras under his arm, and a curious smile round his thin lips, was preparing to follow the strangely ill-assorted couple.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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Under one arm he carried a huge chapeau-de-bras, and under the other a fiddle nearly five times as big as himself.Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
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