matinée coat
Britishnoun
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One after the other, we stumble across them in her prose; the perfect object, perfectly recalled: "a baby's matinee coat with picot edging", "a linen napkin in a bone ring", a dressing gown that is "fawn and hairy", a chop with "a plump red kidney attached", a bunch of altar chrysanthemums that had "a sad smell of clay".
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