Footmen in livery and knee-breeches drew back and replaced the guests 'chairs when they sat down, while the major-domo ceremoniously ladled out steaming soup from a silver tureen.
在车身和跟班膝易引起背部和更换了客人的提问时,坐在椅子、而大卫国隆重挟汤蒸出一银瘤胃。
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The Duke of Wellington was once famously turned away from the doors because he was guilty of the double solecism of arriving 7 minutes late and wearing trousers rather than knee-breeches.
The Manhattan docks were a place of "stiff top hats, swallowtail coats and trousers that had replaced the eighteenth century's powdered hair and kneebreeches."