lumber-jill

lumber-jill
 n.— «The vogue for bright plaid sport coats is going to brighten up the stands to no end.…Topping the ensemble…will be a gay beret to match; the whole effect being that of a fancy lumber-jill in technicolor!» —“A Woman’s New York” by Alice Hughes Washington Post Sept. 11, 1937. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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