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Word: peplum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically the great aircraft engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank as Usual | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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