staggette
n.— «Mrs. Ed (Mary Lou) Critchlow, right, sat atop the piano alongside chorus girl Mrs. Frank (Millie) Swanberg, at Tri-City Country club which Thursday night will turn itself into a suffragette party at women’s division “Staggette.”» —“Dolly Hello’s It” Tri-City Herald (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland, Wash.) Nov. 4, 1968. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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