barege

plural bareges

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of barège.

   Rose took out an old barege of an ashes-of-roses color.

   1908, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Shoulders of Atlas

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   She moved, a stately high-hipped figure, her severe face almost concealed in a scooping green barege hood, to the centre of the floor, and stood there with a pose that might have answered for a statue of Judgment.

   1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke

   "Because her father--ah! bon jour, Madame--excuse me, Monsieur, but I go to pay my respects to Madame la Comtesse!" cried the Belgian, as an elderly red-faced lady, with fuzzy sandy hair, wearing a dingy, many-flounced lilac barege gown, came towards them along the gravel path.

   1871, Eleanor Frances Poynter, My Little Lady

   She has on her blue barege dress, which implies her unvarying constancy.

   1852, Mary H. Eastman, Aunt Phillis's Cabin

   She did her hair according to the directions of the hairdresser, and put on the barege dress spread out upon the bed.

   1886, Gustave Flaubert, “(please specify the page)”, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC