Please, donate to this blog

After many years, I have finally (and reluctantly) resolved to ask my readers to contribute to this nonprofit blog. In order to add new posts to this blog, I must (in particular) subscribe to such sites as the Oxford English Dictionary, the British Newspaper Archive and Newspapers.com—and, of course, to WordPress. Unfortunately, now that I’m […]

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‘shabby chic’: meaning and origin

someone or something that is fashionably or artfully dishevelled or dilapidated—in early use: someone or something whose dishevelment or dilapidation is unintentionally attractive or fashionable—USA, 1901

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