donner
nounEtymology From don + -er.
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One who dons (something).
- O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]1861 June 29, “Old Rome in Crystal”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume V, number 114, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], page 324, column 2:
- “Gathered in circle, / With clangour of armour, / Our youth struck the mighty / Donners of armlets: / Limbs dead and bloody / Glutted the death-birds. / Who shall avenge now / The mighty belt-wearer?”1871, Robert [Williams] Buchanan, The Land of Lorne, Including the Cruise of the “Tern” to the Outer Hebrides. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 186:
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- Tony Rossitto, grand opera tenor, who is in the ranks at Camp Sherman, is spending the week here and has been permitted to sing at the barracks and Broadway Theater. He is beiing^([sic]) billed about the town as “The Soldier Caruso From Camp Sherman” and “The Fighter With the Golden Throat.” Mr. Rossitto was formerly a member of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His beautiful tenor has won many friends for him both among his fellow donners of khaki and those civilians who have heard him.1918 August 31, “[The Concert & Opera Field] Singer in the Ranks”, in The Billboard, volume XXX, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 20, column 3:
- Seven recruits were accepted by the United States army at the Transportation building Wednesday. Of the seven new donners of the khaki, six were old service men.1919 July 3, “Seven Recruits Join Army on Wednesday”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LII, number 18, Atlanta, Ga., page twenty:
- “Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.”1922, Yogiraja’s Disciple Maitreya (Buddha-Gaya), Discovery of the Universal Religion through a Comparative Theology Based on the Faiths of the Forefathers, London: W. Thacker & Co; Calcutta; Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 59:
- Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.1932 March, Philip Wylie, “Angela regrets an Invitation: A story of the Wild Wallaces”, in Edwin Balmer, editor, Redbook Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The McCall Company, page 73, column 1: