Word: cyclamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry sunlight strained through the dirty glass...
Madame Garnett, a sinewy, vivacious Russian approaching a prosperous middle age, displayed some items herself. Sophisticated guests applauded everything, jotted down style names ("Fifth Avenue," "Solitude"), descriptions ("cyclamen," "red and royal blue"). The piece de résistance was a black evening gown called "Tuileries" (price...