Word: schoolgirlish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature who has taken care that the nobler part shall not vary too much from the accepted standard for young maidenhood in the nineteenth century, so much alike and so thoroughly "schoolgirlish" are the daughters she has sent us from east and west, from north and from south...