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The ladies wore bandeaux, cestuses, and ribands, stamped and embroidered with the name of
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852
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Surely, if we were boxers we should have been learning to fight for many days before, and exercising ourselves in imitating all those blows and wards which we were intending to use in the hour of conflict; and in order that we might come as near to reality as possible, instead of cestuses we should put on boxing gloves, that the blows and the wards might be practised by us to the utmost of our power.
Laws 2006
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