inverness
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James A. Fitzpatrick visits some of the famous locales in Scotland, from inverness to Loch Ness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2020
The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian era.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his hands thrust deep in the sack-like pockets of his inverness he drifted from treasure to treasure—uninvited, from room to room—like some rudderless craft.
From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer
Armitage had lost his hat in the area; his light walking-stick lay in the middle of the floor; his inverness coat hung wet and bedraggled about him; his shirt was crumpled and soiled.
From The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
Professor Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress, wearing a stained inverness cape, bent in two from incredible age, totters across the room, his hands fluttering.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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