haori

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More loosely, but more effectively, the verses might thus be rendered: "Like a woman slipping off her haori -- that is the appearance of a butterfly."

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  1. A short loose over-jacket or -coat worn in Japan. Women under their umbrellas wore the graceful short overcoat they call haori, and tottered over the wet ground on high wooden pattens. La Farge, Artist's Letters from Japan, p. 274.

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