Word: low-necked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...time he refused to wear "the white muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about Hawthorne's diet--at one dinner he ate cutlets, fricassees, ragouts, tongue and chickenpies--and about his wife's wardrobe (Sophia's first ball dress, a "superb brockade," was "paletinted, low-neck, and short-sleeved"). Other minor details abound from the cost of Hawthorne's trip from Rome to Florence (95 scudi, with an additional five crowns for the tip) to the name of Isa Blagden's lapdog (Frolic...
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