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BLOOM: _ (In workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap) _ Mankind is incorrigible.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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BLOOM (In workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap.)
I Just Read About That... Paul Debraski 2010
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By 1922, the word was so well known that Joyce used it in Ulysses to describe Bloom’s fantasy through his fashion sense: “In workman’s corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap.”
Archive 2008-03-01 Unionpearl 2008
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By 1922, the word was so well known that Joyce used it in Ulysses to describe Bloom’s fantasy through his fashion sense: “In workman’s corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap.”
A to Z: G is for Gansey Unionpearl 2008
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