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Updated: June 19, 2025
Even this, and the word drawers, which was also once a most refined expression, are falling into disuse, and people talk vaguely of "underlinen" in speaking of these garments. The shops which are always refined to the verge of vulgarity only allow themselves to use the French word lingerie.
Suddenly she announced her intention of becoming a nun sold her house and lovely garden, where she had spent so many happy hours with her flowers and her birds, distributed her pretty things among her friends, and accepted all the small trials of strict convent life no bath, nor mirror, coarse underlinen and sheets no fire, no lights, no privacy, the regular irksome routine of a nun's life, and is perfectly happy never misses the intellectual companionship and the refinement and daintiness of her former life, likes the commonplace routine of the convent the books they read to each other in "recreation," simple stories one would hardly give to a child of twelve or fourteen, the fetes on the "mother's" birthday, when the nuns make a cake and put a wreath of roses on the mother's head.
When in London she chared for her cousin Malka at a shilling a day. Likewise she sewed underlinen and stitched slips of fur into caps in the privacy of home and midnight. For all Mrs. Ansell's industry, the family had been a typical group of wandering Jews, straying from town to town in search of better things.
Hence, all that met his eyes was a noble yellow horse, which was tethered by the track, and a small young man, who appeared to be a lunatic since he had undressed hastily in the heart of the forest, and stood now with an eager anxious face clad in his underlinen amid the scattered debris of his garments.
Andrey Yefimitch sat down on Ivan Dmitritch's bed and waited. But half an hour passed, and instead of Hobotov, Nikita came into the ward with a dressing-gown, some underlinen, and a pair of slippers in a heap on his arm. "Please change your things, your honour," he said softly.
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