Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

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

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11 [fashion] words
beaver
tarlatan
tress
guard-chain
dressing gown
cambric
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tress

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Definition:
1. long ringlets or curls of hair
2. braid of hair

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Powder, which the court ladies had then begun to use, had not spoiled Blanche's beautiful tresses.

Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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Her thick, long hair had been partly removed at the beginning of her illness, and now she wore it simply combed in its natural tresses over her temples and neck.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled;

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Kitty's swollen and agonized face, a tress of hair clinging to her moist brow, was turned to him and sought his eyes.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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