overthing

Updated: October 22, 2025

She looked hard at the dress, as if it were not quite the thing for breakfast. Mrs. Erwin herself wore a morning-dress of becoming delicacy, and an airy French cap; she had a light fall of powder on her face. "What kind of overthing have you got?" she asked. "There's a sack goes with this," said the girl, suggestively. "That's nice! What is your bonnet?" "I haven't any bonnet.

William Dean Howells - The Lady of the Aroostook