belt-lining

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And he took them, and looked them over, close, admiring them, and and admiring me, and finally he started, and then held the frock to the light, and then lifted a little plait, and in the under side of the belt-lining there was a name very finely wrought, Virginie des Violets; and he looked at all the others, and in some hidden corner of every one was the initials of the same name, V. des V.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862