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Michele’s clothes would have pleased the earliest inhabitants of the Palazzo Alberini: a blouselike pink shirt fastened at the neck with a pussycat bow; mink-lined mules with horse-bit buckles.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016

On his loose-fitting blouselike tunic, torn in many places, is pinned a black and yellow ribbon, and hanging from a thin remaining strand shines the silver medal of St. George.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)