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Bloomer   Listen
noun
Bloomer  n.  
1.
A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
2.
A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.





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"Bloomer" Quotes from Famous Books



... brought in the borrowed saddle Irene appeared in a sort of bloomer suit, somewhat wonderfully contrived from the spare skirt to which allusion has been made, and announced a willingness to risk life and limb on any horse that Dave might select for that purpose. He provided her with a dependable ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... have said quite enough," replied Alice, who had seemed ready to laugh outright, during this encomium. "I think I see one of these paragons now, in a Bloomer, I think you call it, swaggering along with a Bowie knife at her girdle, smoking a cigar, no doubt, and tippling sherry-cobblers and mint-juleps. It must ...
— The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) - Outlines of an English Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Bloomer" :   fumble, blunder, bobble, botch, bloom, gaucherie, blooper, gaffe, trip, foul-up, snafu, flub, slip, fault, bull, fuckup, spectacle, pratfall, trip-up, boner


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