Word: regalla
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...every photographer from every Boston paper to see the club off--by the way, he's obsessed by pictures), he hustled the entire team off to sleep in cozy Pullman berths, only to discover the tickets called for coach reservations. And his adherence to the Chesterfield-carnation tradition, a regalla sported at every Crimson rink contest by manager and coach, is only too familiar to Harvard hockey enthusiasts. Julian was more than slightly perturbed when Coach Johnny Chase appeared at the play-off of the Yale game Chesterfielded and carnationed, but without a black derby--an added touch saved...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
There were other Commencement vanities savoring less of the flesh and the devil. On the great day the ladies of the Colony turned out in full regalla, calculated to shame the lilies of the field. There is a famous story of an elderly dame who sat up all night before the 1758 Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward...
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