Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task...
...motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
When the three entered the well-polished portal of the "21", they caused not a little consternation among the customers who were busy looking important and paying the hat-check attendant for the privilege. In the Hasty Pudding tradition, the trio was dressed in female garb. They compounded the confusion by emitting yelps and titters that struck almost every ear-drum...
While we are having our troubles with the Commies, the Pope's army is sneaking through the backdoor under the garb of their church's christening our Army units for their own saints...
Later at night, the Count, still in nun's garb, slips into the countess' bedroom and, by mistake, makes love to his own page, who has dressed himself up as a woman, while the countess observes from the sidelines...