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1851. Her dress was a blue-striped linen short-gown, wrapper, or long-short, a coarse yellow petticoat and checked apron; short, grizzly hairs bristled in all directions over her head.—S. Judd, ‘Margaret,’ i. 11. (N.E.D.)
1851. Over a heap of charcoal and cobs crouched a woman in a tattered and begrimed long-short, with the collar open, exposing a dingy neck and broad shoulders, and blowing lustily at the fire, which she was striving to kindle with her breath..—Id., ii. 50.
