Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a hobbledehoy.
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Shop-girls (the type of young woman she knew well) and hobbledehoyish youths, the latter clad in "reach-me-down" frockcoat suits, high collars, and small, ready-made bow ties, thronged about her.
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