Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Langtry has won not her spurs exactly but her ribbons already on the stage. All the women of fashion in London are wearing caps modelled on one worn by her as Kate Hardcastle, with a quaint full border of lace. The last dramatic furor in caps was created by Ellen Terry when she played Olivia...
...flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with contrition, there is a strong party which firmly defends slang on the ground of its wonderfully expressive qualities. One little word, of Lasell manufacture, consisting of but four letters, contains in its one short...