Shad Bellied

Word SHAD BELLIED
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Rising from a little cabin boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief mate, and captain, and finally a shipowner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income. ❋ Unknown (2002)

There will be an old Hard-shell clock resurrected, with throat whiskers, and wearing a shad-bellied coat and flap breeches. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)

No Southern silver-tongued orator of the old-time, string-tied, slouch-hatted, long - haired variety ever clung more closely to his official makeup than the English barrister clings to his spats, his shad-bellied coat and his eye-glass dangling on a cord. ❋ Unknown (1910)

There was a certain sad, plum-colored, shad-bellied coat that flashes athwart my memory in hideous recollection, which wrapped itself portentiously about my slim figure, to the great delectation of my young friends and companions, and to my corresponding misery. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

The shad-bellied coat was bad enough -- you could take that off, though -- but there was something worse that stayed on. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

Put him into a shad-bellied drab and he would still have retained traces of dudishness; a Chatham street outfit could hardly have unduded him. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)

Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Women will like some fellows, when men can't see no sort o 'reason why they should; and they liked this' ere Lommedieu, though he was kind o 'mournful and thin and shad-bellied, and hadn't nothin' to say for himself. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

In this Livingston Company many wore three-cornered hats, shad-bellied coats, shoe and knee buckles. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship-owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income. ❋ Unknown (1851)

As I stood noting these various forms and costumes, a large heavy-built man, with florid face, and dressed in a green "shad-bellied" coat, passed through the entrance. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The coat was of the cut vulgarly called shad-bellied -- the waistcoat pockets hung down very low, rendered more remarkable by a triangular scollop cut out of the lower part of the front -- the breeches buttoned very tight below the knee, finely displaying a well turned calf and ancle above a thick-soled low-quartered shoe, fastened with a large white metal buckle. ❋ Unknown (1839)

A shad-bellied blue bobtail coat, turned up with broad buff, and meeting at the pit of his stomach with a hook and eye, was well adapted to show the breadth of his brawny chest, which was usually uncovered enough to reveal the shaggy mat of red hair that grew upon it. ❋ Unknown (1832)

"skinny" -- little boy, about nine or ten years old, in a purple shad-bellied coat which had been made to fit (?) him by cutting off the sleeves, also the voluminous tails just below the back buttons! ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

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