Masherdom
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The world of mashers (fashionable men of the late Victorian era). uncountable
"Life is still primitive enough on the "backblocks" to dispense with anything approaching "masherdom." White linen suits and freshly-starched collars may be seen on the Palmerston esplanade, but at the diggings and on the cattle stations, the ordinary bushman toilette is the one most in vogue - a flannel shirt or blouse, broad leather belt, knee-breeches and boots, with a brigand-like sombrero of smaller dimensions than those affected by our latest celebrity, "Buffalo Bill," and his companion cow-boys at the Wild West Show."
Example
More examples"Life is still primitive enough on the "backblocks" to dispense with anything approaching "masherdom." White linen suits and freshly-starched collars may be seen on the Palmerston esplanade, but at the diggings and on the cattle stations, the ordinary bushman toilette is the one most in vogue - a flannel shirt or blouse, broad leather belt, knee-breeches and boots, with a brigand-like sombrero of smaller dimensions than those affected by our latest celebrity, "Buffalo Bill," and his companion cow-boys at the Wild West Show."
Etymology
From masher + -dom.
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