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Roman-matron classicizing pretension
Roman matron imitation
A fashionable classicizing excuse -- "imitating the Roman matrons" -- invoked in "A Woman of the Classics" to justify a scandalously low-cut dress, satirizing drawing-room affectation of classical learning.
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- Captions for Drawings §219 A WOMAN OF THE CLASSICS
The woman's excuse -- that she is 'imitating the Roman matrons' -- plays on a fashionable classicizing pretension used to justify a scandalously low-cut dress, satirizing drawing-room affectation of classical learning.
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