gibus

• “Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment.”

  The Book of Snobs

• “Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes.”

  Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885

• “His gibus slipped from his hand and rolled over the floor.”

  The Child of Pleasure

• “Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it.”

  Sacred and Profane Love

• “The craziness of the gibus hats beats description.”

  The Cathedral

• “-- Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment.”

  The Book of Snobs

• “1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.”

  SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156

• “Hifpidos agrcs vel fpicis ac fru - gibus maturis hlfpidos A hirfutot; vel poQus kyemis afpertate horridos ac deformes.”

  Internet Archive: Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

• “ΙΝΟΕΧ HISTORICVS Euryclidas & Micyon, rhetores, confiliis iuis regunt Arhenicn - lcs, & i turpiter blandiunrtir rc - gibus.”

  Internet Archive: Historiarum quidquid superest;

• “Sed longe antea idem lc - gibus bene multis cautum fuerat.”

  Internet Archive: Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italici populi referentibus post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad annum usque MD : omnia illustrantur et confirmantur ingenti copia diplomatum et chartarum veterum, nunc primùm ex archivis Italiae depromtarum, additis etiam nummis, chronicis, aliisque monumentis nunquam antea editis

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