Shady young men in Charvet shirts sit round the bar…

Shady young men in Charvet shirts sit round the bar repairing with powder-puff and lipstick the ravages of grenadine and crème de cacao.

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Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1928), p.33

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