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  • By holding the tail of her happi-coat he could just edge along over the worn carpet.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • She wore a gay little happi-coat, still showing its folds from the tissue, over pink fairy-wool pyjamas, and a lace-and-ribbon boudoir cap of the mystifying cloche era.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • There she was in her happi-coat, bright as a bird, sitting on the bottom of the staircase.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • There she was in her happi-coat, bright as a bird, sitting on the bottom of the staircase.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • She wore a gay little happi-coat, still showing its folds from the tissue, over pink fairy-wool pyjamas, and a lace-and-ribbon boudoir cap of the mystifying cloche era.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • By holding the tail of her happi-coat he could just edge along over the worn carpet.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

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