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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vest or waistcoat with a large prominent pattern like that of a shawl.
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A shawl-waistcoat, likewise of black cloth, was supplemented by a white under-waistcoat, and yet again beneath this gleamed the edge of
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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