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Dressed to the nines

Posted by Keith on July 01, 2009 at 07:34

About the entry for "dressed to the nines": I note that Cervantes mentions "outfitting his donkey to the ninety-nines" in "Don Quixote", which seems to have been written before any of the other sources cited so it must have originated from further antiquity.

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