Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery to me what the average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young ladies of his church wearing the alluring bang. Of course you have read Mr. Grant's clever little book, "Confession of a Frivolous Girl," and perhaps you know many, many Alice Palmers, and some who flirt even more than did the lovely blonde or pretty Daisy Miller...
...reported that the faculty of Yale will hereafter forbid the junior promenade, on the ground that it is too expensive...