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is do-on, as “Don your bonnet.” (See Doff, Dup.)
“Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,
And duppʹd the chamber door.”
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Shakespeare: Hamlet, iv. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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