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Gathers (g hard)

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Out of gathers. In distress; in a very impoverished condition. The allusion is to a woman’s gown, which certainly looks very seedy when “out of gathers”—i.e. when the cotton that kept the “pleats” together has given way. (Anglo-Saxon, gader-ian, to gather, or pleat.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Gaston (g hard)
Gastrolators
Gat-tooth (g hard)
Gate Money
Gate-posts
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Gate of Tears [Babelmandeb]
Gath (g hard)
Gathered
Gathers (g hard)
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Gaucherie
Gaudifer (g hard)
Gaudy-day (A)
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Gaunt (g hard)
Gauntgrim (g hard)
Gauntlet (g hard)
Gautama (g hard)
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