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  • Carol could not decide whether she was to become a feminist leader or marry a scientist or both, but did settle on Vassar and a tricolette suit with a small black hat for her Freshman year.

    Main Street 2004

  • The dress was of silky changeable tricolette, the skirt plain.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • Carol could not decide whether she was to become a feminist leader or marry a scientist or both, but did settle on Vassar and a tricolette suit with a small black hat for her Freshman year.

    Main Street 1920

  • Carol could not decide whether she was to become a feminist leader or marry a scientist or both, but did settle on Vassar and a tricolette suit with a small black hat for her

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode.

    Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Emma Speed Sampson 1907

  • The dress was of silky changeable tricolette, the skirt plain.

    Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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