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shorts

Short trousers varying in length down the thigh to the knee. Originally a male garment, they have been worn by women since the 1920s. They were formerly associated with sports and casual wear, but during the late 1970s suits consisting of shorts and smart jackets were introduced.


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"Dear boy," he returned, "there's disguising wigs can be bought for money, and there's hair powder, and spectacles, and black clothes - shorts and what not.
The chests were taken out with all convenient despatch, and taken in to be unlocked by Mrs Jarley, who, attended by George and another man in velveteen shorts and a drab hat ornamented with turnpike tickets, were waiting to dispose their contents (consisting of red festoons and other ornamental devices in upholstery work) to the best advantage in the decoration of the room.
She had pressed it in every alarming way--three shorts and a long, two and a long, and five.
 
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