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Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes



 
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Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes #1 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:59 am   Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes		  
Hi,

Could you please help me out with the following passage?

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She got up slowly, raising her eyebrows at me in astonishment, and followed the butler toward the house. I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes--there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.

1. Does the first underlined mean: I noticed that she wore her evening dress, which was, in fact all her dresses were, like sports clothes or I noticed that she wore her evening dress, and I found that all her dresses were like sports clothes?

2. Could this 'about' be taken as 'in' in meaning?

Thank you!

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Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes #2 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:28 am   Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes		  
Hi Haihao,

I would say this refers to the way she wore them - the way she comported herself in these particular clothes - as if they were in fact sports clothes. 'About' here to me means 'concerning', 'regarding'.

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