tulle-foam

Updated: May 18, 2025

But here, in this oasis, playground or pleasure-ground, the People of the Serious City was what was writ on their faces. Five hours later the park was almost deserted, and the gleam of white shirt-front or tulle-foam was caught as a closed carriage passed. The old bachelor was asleep in his chair at an open window looking across the narrow street at the familiar sooty face of the house opposite.

George Lynch - Impressions of a War Correspondent