Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… such as on a ‘mahogany armchair covered with crimson velvet’ (Redford 4), initiation rites, and its members dressing up in togas. 13 Dashwood’s membership with the Dilettanti spanned more than thirty-five years, and during that … As with the Dilettanti, the prerequisite for membership was to have visited the country in question. The members enjoyed dressing up in oriental garb, calling the minute book the ‘Al Koran’ and themselves by specific names such as ‘Hasnadar’, …
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