Word: djibbah
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...time the bouncy, bumpy Roedean Girl became a national byword, as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and the butt of music-hall skits. She wore a bright-colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...
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