An embarrassing mistake

Usage examples of bloomer.

She had never much favored the rather risque costume for women espoused by Amanda Bloomer, but she had asked Jason for permission to order one on the chance that she might need it, and it was proving invaluable today.

University Chapel, she was attired in a scandalous Bloomer outfit, on her hands and knees in a barren, slate-floored room, chalking diagrams she had a notion her old minister would have considered blasphemous on the floor.

The day, I mean, when Bloomer took me into the country, and Tuck so far forgave my rudeness to him as to come with us to carry the basket.

I can only see one bloomer leg and a hank of hair, but that is enough to recognize my soul mate by.

I just figured it would take experience to pick a bloomer as bad as this one.

Although I harbor great admiration for Amelia Bloomer, those remarkable garments are somewhat extreme.

Miss Bloomer, having lost her mother in early life, and her father being devoted to the chase, pedestrianism, and other athletic sports congenial to most country gentlemen, the young lady, his only child, had ample scope for indulging her inclinations.

A few days afterwards the woman returned the soldier his ring, now charmed, with instructions to endeavour to get Miss Bloomer to wear it, though but for a few minutes.

Arthur Johnstone had celebrated in Latin verse, and regarding which Thomas the Rhymer had uttered prophecies, Campbell, unnoticed, followed Miss Bloomer, in the hope that fortune would favour him some day.

Miss Bloomer retired to rest, or rather to bed, for during the night she was restless, tossing from side to side like one in delirium.

Before three short months had passed, Sergeant Campbell and Miss Bloomer observed more than once the finger of scorn pointed at them.

Before Captain Bloomer received the letter, the last spark of anger in his breast had given place to paternal anxiety.

He preferred to pretend that was simply a late bloomer, but he carefully hid, child from the world.

Not for the first time, she wished she did not have to wear the silly thingbut she was not the kind of wild and rebellious woman who would shed her skirts and corsets for a vest and bloomers, and stride off to march in a suffragette parade.

She moved back a little further, dusted her hands on the canvas Bloomers, and turned to leave the room.