effrontedly

Updated: June 7, 2025

They were of every hue red, yellow, brown, pink, patched, darned, wide-skirted, plaited, ruffled they appeared to represent the taste and requirement of every climate and country, if one could judge by the thickness of some and the gossamer tissues of others; but even the smartest were obviously, unmistakably, effrontedly, flannel petticoats. It was a mystery that greatly intrigued us.

Anna Bowman Dodd - In and out of Three Normady Inns