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Ulysses vocabulary

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bertha: tags: [fashion] [rare]

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wide, flat, round collar, often of lace or sheer fabric, worn with a low neckline in the Victorian era and resurrected in the 1940s.

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^{advertisement: By Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (1920)}
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(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched with bertha supple, draws her shawl across her nostrils.)

James Joyce. Ulysses

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