neatly-corsetted

Updated: June 14, 2025

This time he did not appeal in vain to the strangers with a barbarian's contempt for the great world. The brisk drive and the salt in the air were stimulants to appetite to be respected; it is not every day the palate has so fine an edge. "Du the, mesdames a l'Anglaise?" a neatly-corsetted shape, in black, to set off a pair of dazzling pink cheeks, shone out behind rows of apricot tarts.

Anna Bowman Dodd - In and out of Three Normady Inns