black-waistcoated

Updated: May 29, 2025

While I was giving her the necessary explanations her father came in. I looked at him with considerable curiosity. A tall stout gentleman with impressive respectability oozing out of him at every pore with a swelling outline of black-waistcoated stomach, with a lofty forehead, with a smooth double chin resting pulpily on a white cravat.

Wilkie Collins - A Rogue's Life