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  1. genuine article love

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  • “I guess instead of me being the catamount, you had the genuine article up in Chicago, masquerading in peacock feathers, and posing as a fine lady, until her time came to scratch.”

    A Girl of the Limberlost

  • “To Moore is committed the task of doing his best for this battered image, in which even the worshippers recognise foul sulphurous cracks, but which they none the less stand ready to worship as a genuine article that 'fell down from Jupiter.”

    Lady Byron Vindicated

  • “The modern genuine article is a version created in the late 1970s by designer Diego Della Valle for the Italian shoe company Tod’s formerly JP Tod’s.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Style Checklist

  • “It was only used once by a Northern man in my presence, and then in a spirit of badinage: "Sit down here, you bloody old Reb, and let me see if you are the genuine article or only the counterfeit presentment.”

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

  • “The casher who took the money bit hard on each coin before pronouncing it the genuine article and dropping it into his chest.”

    Simon & Schuster: City of Glory

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  • tammanycall The real thing, not a substitute or imitation.
    Apr 7, 2009

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