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Richardson wrote the book’s affectionate preface, hilariously describing the decorator in his later years as the “bouffant Tiresias of latter-day Pimlico—bewigged, caftaned, and outrageous.”

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 15, 2015

It was just after three o’clock, and there were no bearded, caftaned men or kerchief-wearing women on the street, but the children were outside, playing, shouting, running.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

Then shalt thou take the hand of yonder caftaned wretch with flowing curls and gold-pierced ears; 10.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

The eyes of the envoys wandered hopelessly from one whiskered, turbaned, caftaned, and yataghaned figure to another.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard