he played at little quoits with his host, and insisted on teaching madame, his wife, to dance the bolero. Julia, hearing the noise, found Chaudoreille in the courtyard of the inn, in the midst of the fowls and manure, making many bows to a little woman of forty years, and beating time with Rolande, saying,— "In Granada nobody dances except sword in hand.
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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"Wish me luck, ladies!" said Miss Tinkum, fluffing out her white angora bolero and sauntering over
Mary Lasswell. Suds in Your Eye, p.181 (1942)
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blue-eyed little brunettes in blue shorts, copperheads in green boleros,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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—Merrion square style. Balldresses, by God, and court dresses. He wouldn't take any money either. What? Any God's quantity of cocked hats and boleros and trunkhose. What?