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pannier
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tags: [fashion]
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Definition:1. one of a large basket of goods transported on the back of a pack animal, bicycle or person2. a decorative basket used for displaying fruits or flowers3. a type of farthingale hoop with the hoops on either side rather than spanning out in all directions.
image: by Pearson Scott Foresman. CC0portrait: by Diego Velázquez (1653)
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What a pity that her pretty body should be imprisoned in a long corset, the bones of which seemed forcibly to compress its charms! But it was then the fashion. Today we have better taste; we wish that the figure should be in its place; we wish, above all, to be able to embrace it without being hindered by farthingales, basquines, paniers or hoops.
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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Try what he would, the eighteenth century obsessed him; the panier robes and furbelows appeared before his eyes; memories of Boucher's Venus haunted him;
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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now and then in the blue velvet of the bodice a hint of ‘slashes,’ in the Henri II style, in the gown of black satin a slight swelling which, if it was in the sleeves, just below the shoulders, made one think of the ‘leg of mutton’ sleeves of 1830, or if, on the other hand, it was beneath the skirt, with its Louis XV paniers, gave the dress a just perceptible air of being ‘fancy dress’ and at all events, by insinuating beneath the life of the present day a vague reminiscence of the past,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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