Bustle
Both words in one sentence
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Violet: Oh, my dear, in my day I wore the crinoline, the bustle, and the leg-of-mutton sleeves; I am not in a strong position to criticize.'
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Amusingly, she then says she has no place to criticise when in her youth she had once worn the latest fashions of the 1860s and '70s:Violet: Oh, my dear, in my day I wore the crinoline, the bustle, and the leg-of-mutton sleeves; I am not in a strong position to criticise.
Source: Series / Downton Abbey
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Position and Bustle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bustle/position
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