Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this upstart crow with no known training in either art or ornithology. Audubon scoffed back. In 1824 he managed to antagonize the Philadelphia scientific community and could find no publisher for his swelling collection of bird paintings. Two years later, he departed for England, where, togged out in backwoods garb, he wowed the sophisticates, arranged a publishing deal and oversaw the realization of his dream...
...strains of Mozart's Don Giovanni are continually succeeded by Shavian reversals of the famous legend. Costumes, too, are magnificent, including a perfect reproduction of the turn-of-the century upper-middle class English motorist's get-up (frock coat, cap and goggles) and the impressively stony garb of the Statue...
...every activity is quite so earnest. In the middle of one night each summer, campers will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...
...year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress. The security guard who first spotted Kadden's garb thought that her stretched-to-the-breaking-point leggings were actually panty hose, a Harrods spokesman said. Nor does the Knightsbridge store see the point in Kadden's claim that, as a Harrods purchase, the $100 offending leggings should have rendered her immune from getting the toss. Sniffed the Harrods spokesman...
...national political discourse has recently been polluted by despicable racial bigotry. The cover of the March 24 issue of the National Review features the President, First Lady and Vice-President as Asian caricatures replete with buck teeth and slanted eyes. Each caricature wears Asian clothing: a traditional peasant garb, a Mao suit and the attire of a Buddhist monk, respectively...