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Doctor Young, the Fellow, has just been with me, to ask me if I could borrow a regimental suit of clothes, sash, and gorgette from some officer of the Guards, of my acquaintance.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Doctor Young, the Fellow, has just been with me, to ask me if I could borrow a regimental suit of clothes, sash, and gorgette from some officer of the Guards, of my acquaintance.
mollusque commented on the word gorgette
The lamps matched, being of turned mahogany, and there were two tall ones and two short ones, all with shades of mauve gorgette over rose China silk.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010