walking-dress

I have to content myself with re-reading passages such as:When Serena presently entered the room, she had changed her walking-dress for a robe of clinging black crape, made high to the throat, and relieved only by a little ruff of goffered lawn.

Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day 2008

Here she now spread out and fastened a plain dark walking-dress and a few other trifles of apparel.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

“Tonnish females,” as the magazine of fashion called the higher class of popinjays, would have stared with contempt at both Faith and Dolly Darling in their simple walking-dress that day.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

We then came to a cell near the machinery-room, in which we put on our walking-dress.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

She was changing her walking-dress for the dressing-gown.

Maurice Guest 2003

She opened it to him in her walking-dress, obedient to the signal agreed on between them which summoned her downstairs.

No Name 2003

She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Mademoiselle Jeanne in walking-dress, looking, with bright eyes and her most charming smile, at Plumet, who steps back in a fright, and

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