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Laferrière: a Paris couture house in the rue Taitbout, one of the leading rivals of Worth. ↩
Rossini's comic opera L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers, 1813); Marie writes «Algeria». ↩
Œil-de-bœuf: literally a 'bull's-eye' (a round or oval window); here, as the sentence shows, a round opening cut in the front of the bodice. ↩
Honni soit qui mal y pense ('Shame on him who thinks evil of it'): the motto of the English Order of the Garter. ↩
Phidias's colossal gold-and-ivory (chryselephantine) statue of Athena Parthenos, the Roman Minerva, made for the Parthenon in Athens. ↩