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The bell-bottom trousers were exaggerated and had many godets flaring out widely from the knee down, almost giving the appearance of a trumpet-shape evening skirt when she stood still.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004
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Professor Holden perceived further that the equatorial extensions characterising the latter tend to assume a "trumpet-shape." [
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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