Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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zoot suit

Teenagers in London’s working-class neighborhoods asked their local tailors to replicate the Savile Row look, while extending the long jackets to dramatic zoot-suit length

—p.121 Chapter Six: Subcultures and Countercultures (121) by W. David Marx
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parvenu

A parvenu won’t just drive a Porsche but will also live in a luxury condo and enroll her children in the top private schools.

—p.64 Chapter Three: Signaling and Status Symbols (51) by W. David Marx
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sumptuary

Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.

—p.37 Chapter Two: Conventions and Status Value (25) by W. David Marx
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gloaming

the city was going through its October heat spell, and the hills were covered not with the usual thick, cold fog but with a gloaming haze

—p.28 by Claire Stanford
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soporific

So this is what my life has been reduced to. What the vast expanses of my past boil down to. A soporific.

—p.152 by Martin Riker
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