Court dress comprises the style of clothes prescribed for courts of law, and formerly for royal courts.
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“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
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“Let your dress fall down your shoulder,
come touch a copy of you....”
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